Re: [patch] enhancements to package-ui.el
On Mon, 05 Oct 1998 11:54:48 PDT, Darryl Okahata said:
* Do we really want to allow installations into arbitrary
directories
(that is, ones which will NOT be located by XEmacs' automatic package
path finder)? This is an issue for novice users. Personally, I think
we should restrict package installations to specific "system"
locations (e.g., to the package-paths specified at configure time) or
to the user-local location ("~/.xemacs/packages"???). Creating a good
user-interface for this is a pain, though, and so we might want to
just settle for some kind of warning if the user enters a "bad" path.
Yes, please *DO* allow install into arbitrary directories. I'd be
perfectly happy if there was a requirement that it *look* like a
plausible subdirectory layout, and if you had to do a manual
(setq yadda yadda) to enable it. Without this, I'll be forced to
do manual FTP/unpack to upgrade packages on our systems that use Depot.
/Valdis