Re: Making docdir configurable

Monday, 28 June 1999

        ...
>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper
<andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: 
Andy> At 10:59 AM 6/28/99 +0200, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote:
...
> I should have been clearer: This ties in with a package system
> overhaul which is aware of multiple versions of the same package.
> This necessarily means that name clashes occur, and this in turn means 
> that they must reside in separate directories. 
Andy> I guess my point is that for 95% of users they won't care about this
Andy> feature but they *will* care about the speed.

They will need to care about this very soon, as Steve and Valdis have
pointed out.

...
> I really hate the fact that we're catering on the XEmacs side
to
> what's really a performance bug in the OS.  High-performance remote
> filesystems (like AFS) essentially solve the whole problem. 
Andy> And this is available on NT when?

Now, as far as I know. :-)

-- 
Cheers =8-} Chipsy
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