Invoking dirvish fails, when not installed from MELPA

[martin5233]

I wanted to try out dirvish, but I failed installing it correctly via el-get, which I use for package management. It seems, that dirvish requires at least the dirvish-media extension to be available in the load-path, which is not the case by default. Unfortunately I couldn't find the information, how to activate or deactivate extensions. It would be nice, if you could extend the documentation accordingly.

[alexluigit]

Do you have a solution for this? I have no idea how el-get works, but I believe all you need is specify the recipe for the package and add "extensions/*.el" to the load-path. Here's how the recipe looks in MELPA. I'd love to improve the doc after figuring this out. Thanks.

[martin5233]

Hi Alex,

thanks for your feedback. I have added the extensions to the load path and this is how the recipe for el-get looks like, which is quite similar to the MELPA recipe:

             (:name dirvish
                     :type github
                     :pkgname "alexluigit/dirvish"
                     :load-path "extensions")

With this addition everything works as expected. You could either simply add this to your git repository or ideally contact the author of el-get to include this recipe in the el-get distribution.

[alexluigit]

Thank you for this, I'll put it in README.