Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien
Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
> Uwe> 4. May be that has been asked already, but are there plans to
> Uwe> write a tool, which allows to convert an already compiled
> Uwe> package to to the xemacs package standard?. I am thinking of
> Uwe> something equivalent to ALIEN for tgz2rpm.
> No. It's a bad idea to simply install a precompiled
package from
> somewhere.
That goes together with my question 1+2, that is the philosophy is
that pui does not support 3rd party packages??.
Please if you find the time tell me the answer to these questions or
point me a url or something. Thanks
> The process could be made a lot easier, but we plan to
rearrange the
> package hierarchy so that each package has its own subdirectory under
> the package hierarchy root with lisp, etc, man, and so on
> subsubdirectories, instead of the current layout with lisp and other
> subdirectories under the package root, with package-specific
> subsubdirectories. That would require rewriting any such tools
> completely. So this will have to wait for a while.
That looks for me the right thing to do. To have all in the same
subdirectory looks somehow freighting to me.
More on question 1 & 2 later, or maybe somebody else can answer.
While this is not "official" policy, here's my understanding on 3 and
4.
No, they can't _coincide_, in general.
ok