emacs-git-snapshot isn't what I expect it to be

[stsquad]

Could this be a bad git url?

https://travis-ci.org/stsquad/my-emacs-stuff/jobs/18887321

My local git tree follows:

git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git

[rejeep]

I wouldn't recommend you to install emacs-git-snapshot on Travis because it compiles Emacs from scratch. Looking at the logs from the installation of Emacs, it fails (Evm probably should exit with a non zero signal here).

I plan to support pre compiled snapshot binaries, but that's not available yet. Until then, I recommend you to use the existing pre compiled versions.

[cg505]

Has there been any update on this? The Travis binaries have been created but the one for the git snapshot hasn't been updated in a long time, kind of making it pointless in it's use as a "snapshot".

[raxod502]

@rejeep What's the status with emacs-git-snapshot-travis? It seems to be totally broken—I'm getting warnings about if-let* and when-let* when those warnings were removed from Emacs master months ago.

[rejeep]

@raxod502 I don't really know, I never use it myself so I rely on other people updating it. If you want an update, please create a build and send me the file and I can release a new version.

[raxod502]

@rejeep Wouldn't it be a better idea to have a cron job on Heroku or something that does this automatically? IMO "snapshot" doesn't really make sense if it has to be manually updated.

[raxod502]

and/or perhaps the fact that the snapshot must be manually updated should be documented in the README; right now one has no reason to believe that it's not automatic.

[rejeep]

Sure, I guess that would be ideal. If someone wants to set that up I'm happy to merge it here.

[raxod502]

For now, I'm using emacs-git-snapshot as an allowed failure. It works as long as I use sudo: required and install texinfo.