Re: [Patch21.5] Find a relative package root at runtime
"Robert Pluim" <rpluim(a)gmail.com> writes:
packages.el uses packages-find-package-hierarchies on the components
of
EMACSPACKAGEPATH, which in my case has the value
~\.xemacs;C:\Program Files\XEmacs\site-packages;C:\Program
Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages
Unfortunately, what it's doing is looking for 'site-packages' or
'xemacs-packages' as subdirectories of the components of that variable,
which obviously isn't going to work.
Yes. This changed recently (back to 21.4 behavior) with:
2005-12-30 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org>
* packages.el (packages-find-all-package-hierarchies): Interpret
EMACSPACKAGEPATH as listing package direcories, not hierarchies.
This fixes a regression introduced in the change on 2005-01-08.
For an explanation of the difference between "hierarchies" and
"directories", see the top of packages.el:
;;; A *package hierarchy* is a directory that contains a collection of
;;; packages; it has lisp/, info/, etc/ etc. subdirectories that
;;; contain the files constituting the packages.
;;; A *package directory* contains package hierarchies---the package
;;; hierarchies are typically in directories "xemacs-packages",
;;; "mule-packages", and so on. A package hierarchy might only be
;;; applicable for specific variants of XEmacs.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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