Package System Gripes (Re: (no subject))

Norbert> robert delius royar <xemacs(a)frinabulax.org&gt; writes: Hello Norbert> Robert, Norbert> ess-1.06 was part of the last official release (Nov 13), Norbert> so you'll have to use one of the places that host those Norbert> packages to get this package. Hi Norbert, I think I said this before. I consider this BrokenAsDesigned (I know it's not your fault). Can't we do anything to protect the user from this highly surprising and misleading experiece? This is probably the greatest gripe I have about our package fetching process. Come to think of it: * The fact that a vanilla XEmacs installation can't fetch packages is probably competing for first place :-) Other than that I love our package system whenever I see ppl on #emacs repeat the some dull routine: How do I install x? Put it somewhere on your load path. What's load path? ... Put is somewhere and update load-path. How do I ... It's also great that we got info, html, autoloads and custom-load generation automated as part of a nice makefile infrastructure. Came in handy when I created the XEmacs erc package. Best regards, Adrian Norbert> norbert. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/