Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien
>>>> Stephen J Turnbull writes:
>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>> --==> "AJR" == A J Rossini <rossini(a)blindglobe.net> writes:
AJR> But this won't help with having packages INSTALLED IN PLACE,
AJR> will it? (i.e. I thought you couldn't work right out of a
AJR> copy of a checkout of the packages CVS repository, though I'd
AJR> be really happy to be wrong :-).
SY> No, you are correct, you can't run packages "in place".
However, this may change; Michael has mentioned moving to a
$package/{etc,lib-src,lisp,info,man,...} organization from the current
{etc,lib-src,lisp,info,man,...}/$package setup. Further changes might
be required to make run-in-place work, but that is the main barrier at
the moment AFAIK.
Won't that tend to vastly increase the size of load-path (etc.) and,
thus, slow down finding things?
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