From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:32:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83edhiimd8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO2hHWYhDuUP--+y71YVCwW0R=mLk7DYGcbR3-YCFgmocB-71Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from chad on Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:43:01 -0400)
> From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:43:01 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> I don't run under macOS any more, but when I did, there was an extra wrinkle here: emacs typically
> builds as an "app bundle", essentially a directory named "Emacs.app" that contains all of the stuff
> that a typical unix-like installation would put in various subdirs of /usr/local. This was actually quite
> nice -- it meant that I could have a complete, functional version of emacs in both Emacs.app and
> Emacs-old.app whenever I wanted to try something new without stranding myself if the new thing
> turned out to be broken.
??? The "Unix-like" installation puts these files in version-specific
directories, so you can have several Emacs versions available on the
same system at the same time. I do that all the time, and have about
a dozen Emacs versions installed and runnable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-25 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-24 14:31 source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source sbaugh
2023-10-24 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 15:13 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-24 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 16:20 ` sbaugh
2023-10-24 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 8:41 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-25 12:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 13:20 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-25 13:43 ` sbaugh
2023-10-25 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 14:29 ` sbaugh
2023-10-25 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 18:12 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-25 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 19:07 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-25 16:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-24 18:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-25 17:43 ` chad
2023-10-25 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-10-25 20:30 ` chad
2023-10-26 4:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 18:57 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-24 16:00 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-24 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 18:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-24 18:48 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-10-24 18:01 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
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