Re: Minimum download set for 21.0
Malcolm Box <malcolm-xemacs(a)brownale.demon.co.uk> writes:
I suspect the minimum is xemacs, xemacs-base and efs but I'm
guessing.
On my last build (21.2b13) I downloaded the source, xemacs-base, dired
and efs. That was sufficient for the package interface to work.
The package interface is *wonderful*, by the way, but not yet
trouble-free for me. To get it working I had to make a change in
package-admin-default-install-function:
; (if (shell-command (concat "gunzip -c " filename " | tar xvf -")
buf)
(if (shell-command (concat "cd " default-directory "; gunzip -c "
filename " | tar xvf -") buf)
ie the default-directory var seems not to affect shell-command's
working directory.
What would be nice would be to have the xemacs source, and then a
xemacs-base package that did allow the package interface to be used.
Would there be anything wrong with bundling the minimum package set
required for package installation, with the source ?
It would make things a lot simpler for first-time installers.
I've done this several times now, studied the docs each time, and I
still don't understand the whole issue of configuring initial
packages. Maybe that's a separate issue.
-Simon