From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:32:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83edhiimd8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875y2wrt0q.fsf@catern.com> <83cyx4krfm.fsf@gnu.org> <837cncko34.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1fsq9ef.fsf@catern.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15180"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 25 20:33:30 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qvih7-0003hw-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:33:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvigG-0005OB-5r; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:32:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvigC-0005NH-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:32:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvigA-0006Tj-3T; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:32:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=a9yVwjCH3uly1Ray/9GQnvOQNInjNUueSR32vE8mGoI=; b=TfIvYW7UOMra FEJJl/81oTnAaUbhCFZ+DEOuW6WkmW/e8JiDxVZpcjEbcj812r864WBMNqvRXE94Tovmu4ZpWnnhe Ge80aGwqCoV7MkKn/8KdTcBaiDFDUo6XJkbyDSx3c8AF08D2FteBTBtXB4UogrQpwQs6hSZWpibHJ hGbyYIMmXS1qDITGQ8tAU52mkGvE1jGGSPdEk1KqTU0GhYaW7N4ym1dro26j8LLqAmvgm42exMTaT k5sVit5mVuN2hllv8c+Dj0JPPlnr66DCLx+3BXIlNb0qTIbJHCUuO3xcUdazo3vVVvnMhcnly9yY6 4CKvcfFQsra8E1yI4O+ziA==; In-Reply-To: (message from chad on Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:43:01 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:311859 Archived-At: > From: chad > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:43:01 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I don't run under macOS any more, but when I did, there was an extra wrinkle here: emacs typically > builds as an "app bundle", essentially a directory named "Emacs.app" that contains all of the stuff > that a typical unix-like installation would put in various subdirs of /usr/local. This was actually quite > nice -- it meant that I could have a complete, functional version of emacs in both Emacs.app and > Emacs-old.app whenever I wanted to try something new without stranding myself if the new thing > turned out to be broken. ??? The "Unix-like" installation puts these files in version-specific directories, so you can have several Emacs versions available on the same system at the same time. I do that all the time, and have about a dozen Emacs versions installed and runnable.