Re: [ EXPERIMENTAL PATCH ] package-get mods for local files (CDROMS)
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Jonathan Harris <jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
Darryl Okahata wrote:
>
> This patch fixes the package-get routines to optionally look on a
> local disk for packages. Basically, package-get-remote was modified to
> allow for a system name of `nil', in which case the directory is taken
> to be a local directory.
[snip]
I think that this is a good thing in general, not just for mswindows
users.
I agree.
...
More fundamentally, is there any reason why add-big-package.sh should
be
a Bourne shell script?
It doesn't have to be. I coded it that way because it was faster and
easier to verify as a shell script. Having it available as a shell
script also allows for a nonXEmacs-based package configureer/installer.
I don't see any reason why a version of it can't be done in Lisp.
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.
O.K. With me.
Darryl Okahata
Monday, 3 August
Mon, 3 Aug
2:12 a.m.
New subject: [ EXPERIMENTAL PATCH ] package-get mods for local files (CDROMS)
SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
> 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.
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo(a)sr.hp.com
DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.
Andy Piper
Monday, 3 August
Mon, 3 Aug
9:16 a.m.
New subject: [ EXPERIMENTAL PATCH ] package-get mods for local files (CDROMS)
At 18:12 02/08/98 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
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.
cygwin tar *is* gnu tar.
andy
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