Re: Package system improvements!?

This assumes the source is newer than the packages. Blindly installing the bootstrap packages from the source might be a bad idea. Maybe we need to limit the scope of what improvements we are trying to do? It seems like the general case of working perfect under all circumstances could be hard to tackle at least now. I can't see through all the twisty little maze of packages anyway! My original goal was to make the package system work so that a user could install the binary, from source or from an installer, and go on from that using what is built in[1] For mercurial or tar-ball-users it might be solved with an option to configure or a make target!? More useful is maybe to address the issue with when a user is on an existing installed system and wants to update or install new packages. This ought to be of benefit for many users. That use case might actually work out of the box. Building everything from sources has kept me away from that use case almost entirely. However when I just tried it it did fail. First obstacle. I didn't have ftp on my path. I fixed that but then getting the package list turned into an endless loop somewhere. I guess this would make most users give up on the idea of using the package system. I'll see if I can get past this point some how and see what other problems might occur. Footnotes: [1] I actually assumed there would be no previous packages installed in this scenario but its usefulness might be to limited!? Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta