From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Subdirectories in package .tar archives
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 17:42:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvim3jzndu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG7BpaqEyzS8LE_14CEHD4RVCd1OWCer0Wqm0xNcFLZWOj49yw@mail.gmail.com> (Paul Pogonyshev's message of "Sat, 15 May 2021 22:20:36 +0200")
> Thank you. So, basically for *resource* files (i.e. not Elisp) and
> something unrelated to Info there are no real reasons to avoid
> subdirectories, right?
Yup.
> As long as one can generate packages as expected (probably not with
> MELPA, though maybe there is some hidden feature in it for this),
I don't know, but at least the specs used for GNU ELPA packages are
definitely able to generate tarballs with subdirectories.
I'd expect the same holds for MELPA.
> they will work fine and one could e.g. do something like
> `(defvar ... (somehow-load-resource "foo/bar.baz"))'?
Yes.
Stefan
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-15 18:02 Subdirectories in package .tar archives Paul Pogonyshev
2021-05-15 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-15 20:20 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2021-05-15 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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