load-path shadows (Re: New DFSG-compliant emacs packages )

[Peter Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:

>         Please join me in a new thread about load path issues in
>  Debian's emacsen.

As I mentionned earlier, I think I have done something sensible with the
emacs-goodies-el source package (binary packages emacs-goodies-el,
debian-el, gnus-bonus-el, devscripts-el, vm-bonus-el, dpkg-dev-el), so
that's a starting point to quickly look at.  It doesn't seem to be
responsible for any nasty shadows.

The source files go in e.g. /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/.
This is typical.  That directory isn't added to the load-path.  That
isn't typical.

The byte-compiled files go in
e.g. /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/ and that is added to
the load-path.  That is typical.

The source elisp files are symlinked into the byte-compiled directory of
each flavour.  That is not typical.

This has the advantage that source and byte-compiled files are in the
same directory, and I can include in the load-path only files that are
compatible with each flavour.

I will likely change my other Emacs-related packages to do the same (if
they don't already, I'm not sure).  This would include mh-e and gri-el.
That is, unless we come up with something better.

Peter