Re: Packages that need helper apps outside of XEmacs.

[Sorry for the previous garbled message. My five-month old son managed to hit just the wrong combination of keys while I was holding down control!] Steve> - The helper app gets distributed in source form only. This sounds like a good start, but there would still have to binary versions available for at least Windows, if not other architectures. Is access to a compiler guaranteed? Steve> - first invocation of the package some clever lisp would Steve> configure/compile the app and install it into lib-src. Steve> Sound like a fun hack? Sounds like a great hack, but it wouldn't work in multi-user sites. It's very likely that in those situations the first person to use the package would not have write access to lib-src. Building at installation time would be preferred, at least then you can assume that you have write access. Better yet would be a separate source package. It will complicate the install process, but you'll get that with the Windows binary version anyway, so it is no extra hardship. Malcolm Purvis