From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Choi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package) Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:45:39 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <416771.1038856923730.JavaMail.steventamm@mac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038858434 14266 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 19:47:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 19:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18IwX9-0003hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 20:47:11 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18IwgJ-0000nP-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 20:56:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IwWQ-0005c8-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:46:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IwVl-0004MV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:45:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IwVi-0004IW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:45:43 -0500 Original-Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10] helo=pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IwVi-0004HG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: from pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.215]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6I00905C85OM@l-daemon> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:45:41 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml2so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.146]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6I00I4EC855H@l-daemon> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:45:41 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from owlbear.local.shawmail (h68-144-207-94.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.207.94]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6I00GABC85C6@l-daemon> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:45:41 -0700 (MST) In-reply-to: <416771.1038856923730.JavaMail.steventamm@mac.com> Original-To: Steven Tamm User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 22 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9811 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9811 Steven Tamm writes: > >Actually the idea (which hasn't been implemented) was to have `make > >install' install only one executable on the entire system: the one in > >the Emacs.app application bundle. Then /usr/local/bin/emacs would be > >the shell script: > > > >#!/bin/sh > >/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs "$@" > > Actually, I think this is a good idea, but in the reverse. I would > have the single copy of the executable in /usr/local/bin/emacs and > have the Emacs executable be a link (either sym or hard). The main > reason is that it is likely to have the application move, but > extremely unlikely that /usr/local/bin/emacs would move. This is also fine with me. IIRC, having Emacs (in the application bundle) as a symlink didn't work in an earlier version of OS X (10.0 I think). Strangely it worked in Public Beta. In any case I don't think there are users of either version of OS X any more.