Re: Package system improvements!?
steven Mitchell <smitchel(a)bnin.net> writes:
This is a little off the "Package system improvements"
thread, but still
about paths to lisp code.
In Windows, XEmacs is installed under Program Files.
That is not accessible over a network, because Windows doesn't want you
to share your Program files over your own network. That complicates
things when you want to update a lisp file to several computers over
your network. So I made a directory which I could share over the
network, and made a directory in Slackware to match, so I can update
from either direction.
Where should user-written lisp code be placed?
Is that what "site-packages" is for?
Does site refer to all users on a single system?
Yes.
Or does site refer to a site like a whole local network? Where an
administrator would install packages and everybody use them?
You could also do that. I'm not sure what "system" means: site-packages
is supposed to be shared among all users of a single installation of
XEmacs. The user-specific stuff can go into one of the package
hierarchies under ~/.xemacs
Getting back closer to topic: Stephen, I don't have the
historical
perspective that you and others do. I am trying to understand the cases
that users would have previously installed packages that are installed
in other places. What kind of packages would they have installed in
other places?
Stuff like org-mode, which does not have a proper XEmacs package version
yet.
It this for people with multiple versions of XEmacs installed? To
avoid
having a second copy of each package on the hard drive?
Not specifically "site-packages": The entire packages can be shared.
Any idea how many users actually have packages installed in different
places?
(other than me, when I installed them in the wrong place (grin))
More than you would think. We started out with far less options, and
expanded as people with different installs complained.
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
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