From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: BBDB v3 approaching release
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 14:48:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20903.19086.90475.166105@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20903.14080.45049.893441@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
>>>>> On Thu, 30 May 2013, Roland Winkler wrote:
> The problem is really that the TeX files generated by bbdb-print
> connect two different worlds:
Sure, these are the more interesting cases. Other such examples
include AUCTeX, SLIME, and Pymacs. Installation is trivial if a
package consists of elisp files only.
> The TeX file is generated by emacs that comes with its search path
> and installation tree. But then this TeX file gets compiled by the
> TeX command that only knows its own search paths.
> And all this happens in a user directory so that everything should
> not depend on the absolute directories used by the particular
> installations of emacs and TeX.
That's why there are distros that set up things such that different
pieces of software fit together, and work for the user out of the box.
Of course, it will help if the package is configurable and can adapt
to different environments.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-30 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-27 8:18 BBDB v3 approaching release Roland Winkler
2013-05-27 8:49 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-27 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-27 16:13 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-27 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-27 19:28 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-27 19:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-27 20:18 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-28 5:32 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-05-28 7:49 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-28 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-27 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <87obbvwgw6.fsf@sbs.ch>
2013-05-28 21:23 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-28 22:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-29 13:27 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-29 16:45 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-05-29 22:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30 7:14 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-30 7:57 ` Jambunathan K
2013-05-30 8:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-30 11:16 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-30 17:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-30 17:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-30 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-30 20:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-05-31 3:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-31 14:14 ` Tom Tromey
2013-05-31 18:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-31 14:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-30 9:37 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-05-30 11:24 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-30 12:48 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2013-05-30 14:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-30 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30 20:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-30 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30 15:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-01 14:34 ` Steinar Bang
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