Re: CVS after Ben merge - how is this *supposed* to work??

Stephen> Michael argues (more or less) that XEmacs should have only one ROOT Stephen> such that the executable is $ROOT/bin/xemacs or $ROOT/src/xemacs, and Stephen> that the packages hierarchies should be rooted in $ROOT/*-packages for Stephen> run-in-place, or $ROOT/lib/xemacs/*-packages for an installed XEmacs. Stephen> This is the admin-centric view. Not quite: the startup code allows arbitrarily many roots. The problem is that XEmacs needs to recognize these roots somehow, and in many installations (say "/usr/local"), they are conflated with a lot of other software, so it makes some sanity checks to ascertain a directory is indeed an installation root. Having only the package hierarchies there presently doesn't qualify. It's been argued that the sanity checks do the wrong thing, i.e. they don't recognize legitimate roots. This is probably true, and at the time I rewrote the code for this, I merely imitated the old behavior. I've changed it once, but I guess I need to change it again so that people who have XEmacs roots containing *only* package hierarchies have an easy way to mark them as such. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla