Miles> I think that has more to do with the creators' personalities (and in
Miles> some cases, history) than any kind of actual necessity.
[...]
> I would be very curious to find out what Stefan Monnier thinks about
> that. (I'm under that impression that he's relatively sympathetic to
> package managers, compared to the typical Emacs hacker.) Stefan, if
> you would be so kind?
I don't know enough about other cases to have a clear opinion, but in my
case, the reason why I'm interested in having some kind of package-installer
for Emacs is that:
- every Emacs package does it, tho differently every time. The most common
method is to provide a list of manual steps :-(
- many Emacs packages are a single file, and I'd rather not wrap them in
a whole separate directory with a couple extra files on the side for meta
data, just for the sake of package management.
- the compilation step is usually trivial, so things like autoconf aren't
very useful since they don't provide much useful support for install.
- most existing package management I've bumped into tend to be focussed on
system-wide install, whereas I expect that many Emacs users need to
install packages in their home dir.
Stefan
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