Re: [Patch21.5] Find a relative package root at runtime
On 3/8/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
>>>>> "vin" == Vin Shelton
<acs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
vin> 1) The user shall be able to choose where the installed files
vin> go.
My question is how flexible is this going to be?
On Unix we still have people who care about "share" vs "lib". As
far
as I can tell, that's not true on Windows, so there's no harm in
insisting that there be a single XEmacs root under which you can find
all of XEmacs's system files, presumably grouped into version-specific
core installations and (a) package installation(s).
I think we have distributors who care about "share" vs "lib".
Remember the Windows world is populated by people who are used to
getting their software pre-packaged for them.
I think it's enough to allow the user to choose that root.
We agree ;-)
Under
that, the installation should allow multiple installations of both
core and package distributions (presumably rare, but see below for a
use case), but in fixed relative positions.
But I don't think we support the use case you specified, except
through EMACSPACKAGEPATH or EMACSLOADPATH. Do we? And even then, as
you pointed out, we don't support it under the package UI.
Regards,
Vin
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