Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can see the intent is to extract a tar ball at a target > location, e.g. site-lisp, and then compile everything in place. My > thoughts about this are a bit ambiguous. On the one hand this > enforces the notion of a package keeping everything in one place. > This way it will also be easier to update or remove a package. On the > other hand this might leave some unwanted cruft in the target > location, e.g. distribution files like INSTALL or README. (Of course, > those might not be necessary anymore once something like install.el is > established.) And e.g. an info file might have to be copied to a > directory where the standalone info reader can find it nevertheless.
Please also keep in mind people who want to create distribution packages (deb or rpm or similar): - Installation will be done in a temporary directory, before packing it up in the deb/rpm - Compilation will most probably be done at the time the deb/rpm is unpacked (otherwise we'd need one auctex package for each emacs flavor we ship, that could be xemacs21, emacs21, emacs22 and emacs-snapshot in Debian lenny). - any remaining documentation files need to be installed at a different place, /usr/share/doc/auctex (but that can be done independent of install.el, I think). Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
