Re: minor observations on Mac build of 22.0.99

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:

> On Apr 30, 2007, at 06:25, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:
>>
>>> 1) The installer adds files to /Applications/Emacs.app if it already
>>> exists, rather than replacing that tree completely.  On one of my
>>> machines, /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin now contains  both
>>> emacs-22.0.91 and emacs-22.0.99.  If I move Emacs.app to the  trash
>>> before
>>> installing, the result is cleaner, with just  emacs-22.0.99.
>>> (Similarly
>>> for other files: the old DOC file, some  elisp and image files, etc.,
>>> were
>>> left over from the old version.)
>>>
>>> Is this intentional or expected, or a bug?
>>
>> What do you mean with "installer"?  Do you use make-package?
>
> Oh, yes, sorry.  I used make-package --self-contained, which produced
> EmacsInstaller.dmg, a disk image containing a Mac installer package  file.

I haven't seen that behaviour myself (neither in 10.3 nor 10.4), but I
don't use --self-contained.

Andreas.

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