From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BBDB v3 approaching release Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 14:48:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20903.19086.90475.166105@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20899.5836.285028.24953@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87obbvwgw6.fsf@sbs.ch> <20901.8264.9162.330645@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20902.12476.291747.710823@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20903.7625.861080.943448@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20903.14080.45049.893441@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369918502 28371 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2013 12:55:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 30 14:55:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui2Nf-0000jw-Or for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 14:54:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui2IC-0001YQ-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 08:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46097) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui2HJ-00006u-EP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 08:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui2HD-0003U4-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 08:48:25 -0400 Original-Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:52860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui2HC-0003Tr-Ux; Thu, 30 May 2013 08:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id r4UCmHO4025081; Thu, 30 May 2013 14:48:17 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r4UCmE7j014291; Thu, 30 May 2013 14:48:14 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r4UCmEfA014287; Thu, 30 May 2013 14:48:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20903.14080.45049.893441@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159920 Archived-At: >>>>> On Thu, 30 May 2013, Roland Winkler wrote: > The problem is really that the TeX files generated by bbdb-print > connect two different worlds: Sure, these are the more interesting cases. Other such examples include AUCTeX, SLIME, and Pymacs. Installation is trivial if a package consists of elisp files only. > The TeX file is generated by emacs that comes with its search path > and installation tree. But then this TeX file gets compiled by the > TeX command that only knows its own search paths. > And all this happens in a user directory so that everything should > not depend on the absolute directories used by the particular > installations of emacs and TeX. That's why there are distros that set up things such that different pieces of software fit together, and work for the user out of the box. Of course, it will help if the package is configurable and can adapt to different environments. Ulrich