Re: RFC: Emacs add-on packages and make.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:
[ Good summary of reasons for current policy deleted ]
Right. The key here is that the only real alternative is to force all
emacs add-on package maintainers to install *all* flavors of emacs,
including the Japanese ones etc. (if they are distinct flavors), and
then have them either build one *gargantuan* package that contains
.elc files for all of the flavors, or build a bunch of flavor specific
packages like vm-emacs20. Both of these would seriously bloat the
archives and, unless we're a bit clever, the end user's machine as
well.
If I've overlooked some better approach, I'm all ears.
> The only issue with re-compilation is that the compilation
> process for some packages (like VM, for exampe), also depend on make,
> and the issue under discussion is whther to allow that dependency and
> to assign the degree of relationship between vm and make.
I think I've come to the conclusion that vm should just depend on
make.
> we are still hammering out the details of the policy and
> implementation.
Definitely. I'm all for bright ideas :>
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