Re: [ EXPERIMENTAL PATCH ] package-get mods for local files (CDROMS)

Tuesday, 4 August 1998

        Darryl Okahata <darrylo(a)sr.hp.com&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:

...
 SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: 
I didn't write the following.

...
> >  It doesn't appear do anything that couldn't easily
be done in
> >  lisp. If we implemented the current add-big-package.sh in lisp
> >  inside package-admin-add-binary-package, we wouldn't have to invent
> >  package-admin-default-install-function or
> >  package-admin-install-function-mswindows and our mswindows problems
> >  would go away. 
...
      The problem is that mswindows users may still have to use a
 different extraction program, even if you ignore the call-process junk
 (e.g., "/bin/sh -c 'gunzip|tar'" vs. mswindows bogons).  Yes, I know
 that gnu tar has the "-z" option, but I don't think this exists under
 mswindows. 
O.K.

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