From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 12:40:21 +0200 Message-ID: <85bqg7yiju.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20070521134747.GA14137@baal.lan> <85veemdp3s.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20070522001139.GA11896@baal.lan> <87lkfc74kh.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <851wh414ad.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180176084 23002 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2007 10:41:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 10:41:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mwolson@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 12:41:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hrti6-0007kD-Od for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 12:41:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hrti6-0004lC-99 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 06:41:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrthF-0004Nz-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 06:40:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrthC-0004Mb-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 06:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrthC-0004MU-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 06:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrthA-0007Xv-1f; Sat, 26 May 2007 06:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.30]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F45C31A72D; Sat, 26 May 2007 12:40:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64AD51B8E5B; Sat, 26 May 2007 12:40:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-062-208.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.62.208]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389EA1C3322; Sat, 26 May 2007 12:40:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 731581C4610D; Sat, 26 May 2007 12:40:21 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat\, 26 May 2007 13\:34\:21 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71838 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: David Kastrup >> 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