Re: the first difficulties in syncr auctex 11.84

Mats Lidell writes: Note that ./CVS/ is only for CVS itself. Neither the package nor the build infrastructure cares if there is a CVS directory at all! Nor does the name matter. What I would do here is create an 00auctex package as follows: 1. cd .../xemacs-packages 2. cvs -d $AUCTEX_CVS checkout -d 00auctex -r $RELEASE_11_84 $AUCTEX_MODULE 3. cp auctex/Makefile 00auctex/Makefile.original # for diff'ing convenience 4. cp auctex/Makefile 00auctex/Makefile 5. cp auctex/package-info.in 00auctex/ 6. cd 00auctex 7. mv CVS CVS.upstream # no more updates until # package works! 8. xemacs Makefile package-info.in # bump version numbers # change name to 00auctex With permission and cooperation from Norbert, you could actually check in 00auctex (obviously we want no releases and not to put it in SUMO until you say "go!"). This will give you load-path shadows, of course, and you'll need to deal with that if old auctex comes first (but I think that 00auctex < auctex so 00auctex will win). The big advantage is that you can use PUI to manage switching between the two packages for testing and "real work". Alternatively, we can make you an "unsupported/uwe" directory, and you can install the new auctex stuff in there as "auctex". This is what Ville Skyttä is doing with "vc". IIRC, all you need to do is change the "include ../../XEmacs.Rules" statement in the Makefile to "include ../../../XEmacs.Rules" to reflect that you're one level deeper in the hierarchy. However, this requires some discipline about remembering which AUCTeX you have installed (this package will install into xemacs-packages as auctex), and you could easily end up with a broken AUCTeX system when you can't afford it. At this point you've got a new package that you can work with locally. When you're happy that 00auctex is ready for developers to work with, 9. cd .../xemacs-packages 10. cvs commit -m "don't lose any current work!" auctex 11. mv auctex/CVS 00auctex/CVS 12. rm -rf auctex 13. mv 00auctex auctex 14. cvs commit -m "Update to 11.84." auctex # Yay!! _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta