From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature Request : autoload-form Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:07:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20080402210733.GU32618@volo.donarmstrong.com> References: <20080331143110.0c38e2e7@reforged> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207170471 25422 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2008 21:07:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:07:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 02 23:08:22 2008 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 1JhABx-0003TX-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:08:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhABL-0003az-AG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhABG-0003Xe-Ts for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhABF-0003VW-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhABF-0003VF-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhABD-0003mg-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m32L7YN2001572 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:07:34 -0700 Original-Received: (from remotemail@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m32L7YBJ001571 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:07:34 -0700 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 5964 invoked by uid 1000); Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:07:33 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:94230 Archived-At: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008, paul r wrote: > Are you planing to impose this ditribution policy for gNewSens / > gobuntu as well ? For the whole GNU OS ? I guess you don't. If you > think Gnu/Linux distribution requirements differ from Gnu Emacs > distribution requirements, could you please explain me how ? At this > time, I can only see numerous similarities. There are similarities, but the differences is wherein the problems lie. There's pretty much no sane way to handle distribution in something besides a tarball which does not get into the way of what distributions are doing. [And really, packaging for distribution is what the distributions are (or at least should be) best at.] The distribution of emacs and packages which are used for emacs but are not part of emacs have largely been solved by distributions already. See Debian's emacs policy, for example. Don Armstrong -- Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe. -- Douglas Adams http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu