Re: INSTALL from sources

Michael Sperber writes: > It just never occurred to me, as running-only-from-installed was deeply > built into the package system from the start. Yeah, that was Steve Baur. I don't know why he thought that was important. It *is* important (eg, to me) to have a single installed package tree that has its own root, independent of the Emacs root for the core code. But I never had a good idea why that also implied no running in place for the packages. > But it shouldn't be hard to do - the trick is probably finding out > whether you're looking at a source hierarchy or an installed > hierarchy: I'll put it on my list. It's not dead simple, I suspect, because some packages have a very flat organization, and others have multiple levels of subtree. This information *is* available to the build code though, so it should be possible to dig it out. But it probably should be refactored.

Also, it would be nice if the stat'ing of the load-path could be optimized further (David Kastrup offered a couple of ideas way back when).