[AC21.4] find packages in ../xemacs-packages at run-time

On 12/27/05, Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; wrote: > > Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > > > (Of course my concern about something like this is why I asked for > > your help to start with.) Can you please explain what kinds of > > confusion and problems you mean? > > The problem is that many people (including me) appeared to have > ../xemacs-packages directories with something other than a package > hierarchy. (Typically, a checked-out CVS or something.) Here's the latest patch, searching only for xemacs-packages under Windows or cygwin. I'm still planning to commit this to 21.4 by the end of the week. BTW, Mike, can you please investigate the EMACSPACKAGEPATH problem that I've referred to: > the problem I observed, where EMACSPACKAGEPATH is treated > differently on 21.4 and 21.5 still exists. 21.4 looks under > $EMACSPACKAGEPATH/xemacs-packages for packages, but 21.5 looks only > under EMACSPACKAGEPATH. I believe this problem has kept the 21.5 version of this patch from working. That is, after applying the 21-5 version of this patch, `paths-find-emacs-roots' locates the root of the package tree, but the sub-directories of $root/xemacs-packages do not get added to load-path. Here's a simple test case: mkdir -p foo/xemacs-packages cd foo/xemacs-packages <unpack packages here> cd - EMACSPACKAGEPATH=$PWD/foo xemacs-21.5 -vanilla will not find the packages unpacked under foo/xemacs-packages. The same test under 21.4 will find those packages. I think it's desirable to have the behavior consistent between the 2 versions so installed packages can be shared. If you don't want to look into this yourself, just point me in the right direction and I will investigate. Thank you, Vin -- Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-- over and over announcing your place in the family of things. Mary Oliver