Straight.el: Can this be installed from MELPA?

[eflanigan00]

I see the bootstrap code but haven't read through it yet to see how it works.
I think your package will get a lot more visibility if it is on MELPA. Just a thought.

I was not aware of it until I saw the post in this thread:
Autoloads for local packages

Thanks for the great package, I'm looking forward to trying it out.

[raxod502]

Good to know my shameless self-promotion is paying off ;)

Unfortunately it doesn't really make sense to install straight.el from MELPA, for a couple of reasons:

1. Doing so would require the installation to be done using a different package manager, which wouldn't have advanced support for things like making sure to install the correct version of straight.el and allowing you to specify a custom recipe for it.
2. If you installed straight.el via another package manager, such as package.el, then straight.el wouldn't be able to manage its own installation. (And in the case of package.el, you wouldn't even get the source code, only the built package.)
3. straight.el operates solely by observing what you do in your init-file, and making the rest of your package management conform to that specification. Thus there is no concept of "installing" straight.el: since it's a functional package manager, the "installation" is putting the configuration code in your init-file, and the "uninstallation" is taking the configuration code back out of your init-file (as contrasted with package.el, which has all kinds of mutable state stored outside the init-file).

That said something I have considered is putting a dummy package called straight on MELPA, which would just launch an interactive tutorial on how to install straight.el the proper way. I think this might make it easier for people to get started.

[eflanigan00]

Thanks, I like the dummy package and video idea.

[raxod502]

@eflanigan00 I've created https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/4939; you may want to follow that thread.

[raxod502]

Well, that's that. It appears that it will never be possible to install straight.el from MELPA.

I'll be happy to reopen this issue if somebody has an idea about how to install straight.el via package.el without losing any of the features. But I strongly doubt that this will be possible, because package.el sucks.