I wish people would stop recommending the use of melpa as a general-purpose package archive. It packages up the master branch of elisp libraries, which means breakage happens all the time. There’s a time and place for that among advanced users who know how to debug, but recommending it to a newbie is just setting them up for a mess.
Agreed. There is melpa-stable these days, but many projects maintainers have gotten used to melpa and thus haven’t pushed a recent tag for stable to pick up. An example is evil-mode, which works great when installed from melpa, but has major breakage (cannot use any Meta key-chords) when installed from melpa-stable.
I wish people would stop recommending the use of melpa as a general-purpose package archive. It packages up the master branch of elisp libraries, which means breakage happens all the time. There’s a time and place for that among advanced users who know how to debug, but recommending it to a newbie is just setting them up for a mess.
Agreed. There is melpa-stable these days, but many projects maintainers have gotten used to melpa and thus haven’t pushed a recent tag for stable to pick up. An example is
evil-mode, which works great when installed from melpa, but has major breakage (cannot use anyMetakey-chords) when installed from melpa-stable.