Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien
(I did not sent this to the list but only to Stephen, sorry)
Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
I'm pretty sure that is _not_ the _philosophy_. But it might be
true
in practice. :-( I need to do some research on that (I manage my
local packages essentially by hand, that is, I put them in the main
package tree).
So did I, but now since I know what the pui is or should be capable
off I am curious.
The packages _do_ have to be in XEmacs *-pkg.tar.gz format, of course,
as VM is.
As is x-symbol for example
Now to another point:
I am using xemacs-21.1.14 (I know I should upgrade) but the Sumo
package from late march: now when calling
(pui-list-packages)
I see:
Latest Installed
Package name Vers. Vers. Description
===============================================================================
- Sun 1.12 ----- Support for Sparcworks.
ada 1.09 1.10 Ada language support.
apel 1.19 1.21 A Portable Emacs Library.
auctex 1.22 1.30 Basic TeX/LaTeX support.
That looks a little odd, but ok I have to downloaded via xemacs the
upgrade of the packages. What is strange that
pui-display-info
display the info of the latest but not of the installed package! So in
this case it tells me auctex version: 9.9p etc (1.22)
but I have 10.g installed (1.30)
if this is not a bug but intended I consider it as a misbehavior.
Uwe Brauer