* Stefan Monnier (2007-02-26) writes: >> One could achieve this with a two-step approach of creating a package and >> then installing it, of course. > > Yes. Although right now there's no code to actually *create* a package ;-)
I know, and I am wondering if install.el would be the right place for including that functionality because the creation of a package can be very special. For example in AUCTeX we do a clean CVS checkout and then (among other things) generate stuff like INSTALL and README from Texinfo files. I'm sure one will find all sorts of such idiosyncrasies in routines for building distribution files of other projects which will be hard to support unless one allows for the flexibility of something like make. For simple projects it might work to support a standardized directory and file layout. Taking the example of AUCTeX above the package preparation procedure could e.g. recognize a file readme.texi and know that it should be turned into README. -- Ralf _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
