Re: Thoughts on XEmacs packaging (was Re: Making docdir configurable)

Friday, 25 June 1999

        sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:

...
 sb> Packages typically want to know two specific things about the
external
 sb> environment. 
There is also the

4. Package needs to have specific code eval'ed at startup time, i.e.
   the autoloads.

...
 Exactly right.  There is a problem currently with associated
 executables:  you really want only the package, which knows about its
 executables, to be able to execute them.  You don't want to add them
 to exec-path and PATH where potentially everyone gets affected.  This
 is also a great source of confusion currently, for example with the
 tm-associated scripts. 
Indeed.

...
 I think especially this last bit will have to change:  I would want
a
 package to identify itself (implicitly or explicitly) when asking for
 the location of its associated files. 
Hmm.. isn't the problem here that a particular lisp file might not
even know which package it is in? Or we will just make the requirement 
that each set of lisp files with data files needs to be in its own
package?

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