Re: Package structure stable?

Christoph Wedler writes: CW> Can we expect the structure of the package system to be stable? * You mean for 21.0 ? Hmmm. CW> I hope the base will stay at `~/.xemacs' since most people are now CW> accustomed to it -- and becoming accustomed to the package system was hard CW> enough since there are no real decent docs about it... (Thanks to Jan for CW> having given essential info for package authors.) I will surely move to ~/.xemacs/packages/ and it is a Good Thing. For the rest, you're very right. It's a pity that people are "accustomed to it". CW> Don't understand me wrong: the packaging system is very cool. But please CW> consider that non-full-time beta testers want to spend their time on other CW> XEmacs aspects than the package system... I.e., don't change the package CW> structure. Thanks, It will change because it's not optimal. The conclusion we had some time ago about this for 21.0 is that we should probably tell the minimum about packages: were to retrieve the tarballs and how to install it. I think that's all if we don't want to make people scream[1]. Footnotes: [1] sounds like a certain flamewar is going to start again. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19