Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien

AJR> But this won't help with having packages INSTALLED IN PLACE, AJR> will it? (i.e. I thought you couldn't work right out of a AJR> copy of a checkout of the packages CVS repository, though I'd AJR> be really happy to be wrong :-). SY> No, you are correct, you can't run packages "in place". However, this may change; Michael has mentioned moving to a $package/{etc,lib-src,lisp,info,man,...} organization from the current {etc,lib-src,lisp,info,man,...}/$package setup. Further changes might be required to make run-in-place work, but that is the main barrier at the moment AFAIK. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py