Re: [patch] automatic loading of package-get-base
greg(a)alphatech.com (Greg Klanderman) writes:
What if I'm just Joe User installing packages in
~/.xemacs/packages
and *can't* write to /usr/local/...../lisp/package-get-custom.el?
Note that the current package tools mostly not ready for user
instalation. But anyway one could just junk it in ./xemacs ..
I fell that the whole package-get-custom.el thing should not be
needed. The custom info should be generated on the fly from the
package-get info. It is probably currently written out because
autogenerating custom info is nontrivial
Also, that code is really irritating because it causes my cvs
updates
to always fail on that file. So I'm for taking it out of the
distribution, like package-get-base.el.
In this case I agree. However i think something like
package-get-base.el needs be in the distribution as an initial set of
info for if there is no ftp access.
Maybe then it never actually
needs to get written out, just eval the right forms which you generate
as package-get-base is read in?
Somehting like that yes.
Jan