Re: MacOS?
Didier Verna wrote:
skip(a)pobox.com wrote:
> dvl> To be precise, I think XEmacs should consider:
> dvl> ~/Library/Application Support/XEmacs as the alternative to
> dvl> ~/.xemacs and also /Library/Application Support/XEmacs as the
> dvl> alternative to /usr/local/share/xemacs.
>
I believe these options already exist (although I never managed to
understand the --with-{early/late/whatever}-package mess). To me, the
question is more about the default values, which should conform to
whatever "platform standards" exist.
IMHO, the native carbon port should use the paths I mentioned because it
is the Mac Way. However, I still believe that an XEmacs compiled for X11
on MacOS X is more Unix oriented and should stick to
/usr/local/share/xemacs.
Sorry for stripping email addresses, but, for me, tbird has problems
with x-posting between newsgroups and email (to my chagrin, often either
nothing gets sent or blank messages get sent).
My 2 cents. I think we have already discussed this, but I'm too lazy to
search for it right now. I believe the consensus was that we should
have both. Let me elaborate it a little more since I don't think it was
spelled out clearly.
So, suppose we are talking about ~/.xemacs and ~/Library/Application
Support/XEmacs. One of these is the real directory, say ~/.xemacs, and
the other is a symlink to it. This has the advantage that ~/.xemacs
will not show up under the Finder with the default settings (and the
non-default settings have other annoyances that I'm not going to get
into), but ~/Library/Application\ Support/XEmacs does which is a nice
convenience. Similar arguments apply for /usr/local/share/xemacs (or is
it /usr/local/lib/xemacs?) and /Library/Application Support/XEmacs.
This type of symlinking between Mac OS X and Unix directories is quite a
common customization for those of us who are really Unix users, but have
found a happy home on Mac OS X.
Rodney
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