Re: minor observations on Mac build of 22.0.99

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>]

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.

>> 2) Out of curiosity, I compared the Intel and PPC trees with  
>> diff.  Not
>> only were the executables different, which was expected of   
>> course, but
>> also leim/quail had differences in the .el.gz and .elc  files.   
>> Picking a
>> .el.gz file at random, the only difference I found  was in the  
>> date stamp.
>
> The files could be compressed with `gzip -n' which would leave out the
> time stamp.

Sorry again :-).  There's a line near the top of the .el file  
containing a date stamp of when the file was generated.  So the file  
contents differed, but not in any way that should've been important.

Ken