Re: Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-19 Thread Christian Lynbech
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manoj Hi, Christian == Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian I am not quite so pessimistic about the possibilities of Christian recompiling installed elisp files. Manoj Please, people, do download the sources for tm and

Re: Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-19 Thread Milan Zamazal
Two further small reasons against install time .el compilation of large packages: 1. I have to install .el sources even when I don't need them. 2. Slow installation. The first is a problem on computers with limited disk space (e.g. my laptop). The second is the problem when I perform major

Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-18 Thread Christian Lynbech
I am not quite so pessimistic about the possibilities of recompiling installed elisp files. I see three situations where makefile do special things in order to compile elisp files: 1) generating/editing .el files (gnats and tm are examples of this) at build-time. This is not a problem since

Re: Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) generating/editing .el files (gnats and tm are examples of this) at build-time. This is not a problem since the generated .el file is installed as part of the .deb file. This is a problem if these packages need to work with both emacs and

Re: Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Christian == Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian I am not quite so pessimistic about the possibilities of Christian recompiling installed elisp files. Please, people, do download the sources for tm and compile a local copy before you display such unwarranted