Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien

nix> On 20 May 2002, Stephen J. Turnbull mused: Uwe> That goes together with my question 1+2, that is the Uwe> philosophy is that pui does not support 3rd party packages??. nix> Look at emacs-w3m: it has a nice package installation nix> system. (I copied much of preview-latex's xemacs package nix> installer from it.) nix> The w3m people don't create a _pkg.el file or pkginfo file, nix> though: preview-latex does that as well. (The package version nix> number used is the date of release, like `2002.0521' --- that nix> should give ample flexibility for additional updates, unless nix> we want to do more than one release a day!) Two issues: o When things go wrong, a second release may be required the same day to get out a good release. o If we use some date to release mapping I would suggest to base it on UTC date/time, not localtime, to put Australia and California and Europe on the same plate. nix> (I don't know whether preview-latex gets that right. I shall nix> check. nix> I know `make install' puts the site-lisp in the right place, nix> is all.) nix> -- nix> `There are not words enough to describe how fucked up imake is.' nix> --- Peter da Silva -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/