Emacs: The most successful malleable system

Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system by throwaway7234 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:21AM (#22876842)

I can offer one data point.

The company I'm an on-site (well, usually) contractor for, whose network I use at work, proxies web traffic over HTTP. It's encrypted at the proxy for HTTPS, but everything outbound from the internal network is effectively plain text.

Emacs doesn't allow packages to be installed over HTTP, so in order to use the package repositories, I have to use my phone as a hotspot.

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Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system by zlalanne on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:28AM (#22876910)

If you have sufficient disk space (~5GB), you can also keep an elpa-mirror on your machine.

https://github.com/d12frosted/elpa-mirror

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Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system by tikej on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:35AM (#22876966)

Didn’t know about this possibility. It’s a good idea to archive it locally and update regularly (just in case something happens with internet ;). Is the same possible for melpa?

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Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system by Myrmornis on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:23PM (#22883231)

> Emacs doesn't allow packages to be installed over HTTP

Are you sure about that? I think that you can specify http as usual in the URL:

  (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)

See the instructions here which go to an annoyingly extreme level of ugliness to set the protocol in a paranoid fashion: https://melpa.org/#/getting-started

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