From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Correct Paths to Emacs C Sources after Installation
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 00:05:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKu-7WxHbA48nzJi6=M7j4PQLhhpzkBj4zNGR19-pr0_uX1dxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwq7bucnv.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
Once again. I want to play around with interactive documentation feature of
Emacs, i.e. clicking `C source code' links when searching for some
implementation details. That would be particularly cool for people who like
to hack on Emacs and actually, as I understand it, that's why such
interactive feature was introduced in the first place.
Two cases:
1. I build and install Emacs for personal usage. Does not even matter on
what platform Unix-like or Windows. Sources are not installed by default,
but I believe their either should or at least an option has to be provided
for that. And
Vsource_directory
= Fexpand_file_name (build_string ("../"),
Fcar (decode_env_path (0, PATH_DUMPLOADSEARCH, 0)));
refers to a hard coded build directory path. Usually build directories
are temporary and so after deleting it, one would not be able to browse C
sources interactively. Furthermore, it is conceptually "stupid" to separate
sources from built Emacs when, in fact, this built Emacs wants to refer to
these sources it was built from. I think nobody can deny that it's pretty
much a convention to distribute open-source project sources under
".../src/name" (for potential further usage or reference like we have in
this case as well).
2. I build and install Emacs, then I package it and distribute to end
users. Why on Earth should the path to the build directory (which obviously
does not exist on end users' machines) that I used be hard coded into
"Vsource_directory"? And again this leads us to the same argument as in #1.
I thought these reasons were kind of obvious. What do you think of it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-03 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-03 20:55 Correct Paths to Emacs C Sources after Installation Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-03 20:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CAKu-7Ww3nzB3SQmKpR73xSVoC=U1Tf5UaJCokm4fpBvMSqAoNQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-03 21:31 ` Fwd: " Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-03 22:27 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-03 22:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-03 23:05 ` Alexander Shukaev [this message]
2014-11-04 0:24 ` John Mastro
2014-11-04 0:35 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 0:52 ` Alexis
2014-11-04 1:11 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 1:17 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 1:21 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 1:26 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 1:30 ` Alexis
2014-11-04 12:20 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 8:53 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-04 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-04 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-04 15:33 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-04 16:07 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 16:18 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-04 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.12770.1415117275.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-04 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-04 18:39 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 18:57 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-04 19:20 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-04 21:00 ` Bob Proulx
2014-11-05 2:43 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.12848.1415155389.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-05 14:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-05 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.12847.1415153254.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-07 4:17 ` Jason Rumney
[not found] ` <mailman.12759.1415115240.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-04 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-04 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-04 15:43 ` Fwd: " Eli Zaretskii
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