Re: Binary distributions [ was Re: [PROPOSAL] fix for bad Xrefs ... ]
Jonathan Harris <jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
A sensible install tree for XEmacs on mswindows might look like:
PROGS\XEmacs\
packages\
XEmacs-21.0\
bin
info
lisp
where PROGS should default to "C:\Program Files".
What's the philosophy for packages? A scheme such as the above
works only if packages are independent of XEmacs versions. However, in
practice, I have not found this to be true; packages tend to depend on a
particular XEmacs version or vice-versa. This may violate the package
philosophy, but what about:
PROGS\XEmacs-21.0\
bin
info
lisp
packages
Unfortunately, XEmacs currently fails to cope with such a layout
because
it expects a UNIX-style install tree; it can't find it's root directory
(paths-find-emacs-roots fails) and it also can't find any of the exec,
info or data directories.
The native mswindows port has no such trouble. Are you talking
about the cygwin port?
-- Darryl Okahata
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