From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ruhl@4dv.net (Robert Uhl ) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: 1.6.0 problems with libguilereadline-v-12 and fix Date: 23 Sep 2002 13:20:57 -0600 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20020918203311.3C5FA3F28@fnord.ir.bbn.com> <87k7ljgfvd.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87d6radoa5.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87it108z2f.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032808871 27334 127.0.0.1 (23 Sep 2002 19:21:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:21:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tYla-00076c-00 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:21:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17tYla-0005Ox-00; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17tYlQ-0005OX-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17tYlO-0005O2-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.7.170.6] (helo=latakia.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17tYlO-0005Nx-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: (from ruhl@localhost) by latakia.dyndns.org (8.11.6/linuxconf) id g8NJKv700504; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:20:57 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: latakia.dyndns.org: ruhl set sender to ruhl@4dv.net using -f Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 44 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:1077 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:1077 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > > > If two seperate packages use the same name for a command, > > That doesn't happen with slashpackage, because there's a global > registry for command names. If one package is already using a > certain name, no one will be able to register it for another > package. By `package,' I mean a software package, not a slashpackage package. That is, if one software suite uses lstr to mean `list translations,' and another uses it to mean `last record,' then you're going to have a collision, not matter what system you use. In this case, it sounds as though one cannot install both packages. Which is perhaps an improvement over the current method, in which one installs them and wonders why the new package works while the old breaks. Stow, incidentally, screams if one tries to install two things with the same name. Which is nice. > > > With slashpackage, it's as simple as "package/install". > > > > That means a custom install script must be used--with stow, one > > uses the standard GNU tools. > > I'm not sure what you mean by `custom.' The package/install script > is included in the package's tarball. It's something non-standard which someone, somewhere must write. With stow, I download a package and install it, whether or not that author had any idea of me using it. With slashpackage, if the author hasn't provided it, I must. > Also, you don't always use the GNU tools with stow. You use > whatever tools the package comes with. Fortunately, nearly everyone uses GNU autoconf/automake, and those who don't typically provide similar install-elsewhere functionality. But yes, in the last reckoning there are painful instances. -- Robert Uhl There is no place for nationalism in the Church. All are one in Christ. --Blessed Martyr Philoumenos of Jacob's Well, +1979 _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user