From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: document package.el Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:57:06 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282060646 16951 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2010 15:57:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 17 17:57:25 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlOXU-0004cP-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:57:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39764 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlOXU-0001U4-AA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50195 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlOXO-0001Tx-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlOXN-0008QX-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:57:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlOXM-0008QO-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7HFv9PZ018240 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:57:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7HFv8mE004379; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7HFv72K005951; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 42332378196; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:57:07 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Uday S. Reddy's message of "Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:37:06 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.12 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:128818 Archived-At: Uday> The document doesn't seem to mention where the package will be Uday> installed or how to customize the location. Is that intentional? This particular documentation is just for package authors. Customizations would be described in the user documentation instead. Uday> Does package.el handle only elisp files or other kinds of files as Uday> well? Where will the other files be installed? Yes, anything in the appropriate directory in the .tar is unpacked. You can ship anything you like in your package -- some existing packages ship data files that they need. Perhaps the docs should mention that elisp installed this way ought to be location-independent. Tom