From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mwolson@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 12:40:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85bqg7yiju.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uy7jbho0i.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat\, 26 May 2007 13\:34\:21 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 08:34:50 +0200
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Windows has no symlinks. That is no concern for Debian, but it would
>> be for a general package system.
>
> Latest versions of Windows do have symlinks. (Which of course does
> not change in any way the conclusion that symlinks are not the best
> idea for a general package system.)
It might work to do "Emacs symlinks", single files only containing
(load "/absolute/path/something.el")
On the other hand, when thinking about a package system, we are not
restricted to maintaining the basic assumption in Emacs that demands
compiled and source Lisp files to be in the same place. While I have
no good ideas about a different reliable scheme, if people can come up
with a good design that works when separating source and compiled
files, we could switch to using it.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-26 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-21 13:47 package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions Trent Buck
2007-05-21 18:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21 23:01 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-05-22 0:11 ` Trent Buck
2007-05-25 16:00 ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-26 1:32 ` Michael Olson
2007-05-26 6:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-26 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-26 10:40 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-05-26 5:33 ` Trent Buck
2007-05-26 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-27 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-27 3:54 ` Trent Buck
2007-05-27 5:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-27 23:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-28 6:33 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-29 0:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-30 0:44 ` Michael Olson
2007-05-30 15:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-28 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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