Re: Changing the package organization

Olivier> As of today, package-1.0.tar.gz unpacks into: Olivier> lisp/package Olivier> etc/package Olivier> info/ Olivier> What you you think about having instead: Olivier> package/lisp Olivier> package/etc Olivier> package/info Olivier> Pros: Olivier> - One can easily remove/upgrade a package by hand even if some files Olivier> dissepeared without any special tool, even if we add other Olivier> directories along the way Olivier> - We can stop recursively searching for packages as soon as we find Olivier> one of the {lisp,etc,info} directories Olivier> Cons: Olivier> - info files won't be in one directory anymore. Can our dir Olivier> regereating code handle three doxen different directories ? Aside from the dir autogeneration, the whole info structure is based on the existence of dir files in *a few* directories containing *many* info files. Your change leads to an important change of the concept and hence of the code. A workaround could be to create a single dir file at the root of the packages tree containing entries such as: * MyPackage: (mypackage/info/mypackage). My own package But this would add extra clutter to the Info menu. A second option could be maintaining two sets of info directories: one to search for dir files and the other one look for the info files themselves. One would include the package root in the first one only and maintain a single dir file there. Oscar