Re: RFC: Emacs add-on packages and make.
Hi,
Firstly, I apologize, I reacted too strongly.
DGMS> What this means, as I understand it, is that psgml and vm don't
DGMS> byte-compile anything if make isn't installed.
This is correct.
DGMS> Since vm and psgml are _large_ packages, I think their elisp files
DGMS> should_ be byte-compiled, and our new debian-emacsen policy
DGMS> suggest this (but it's up to the maintainer, of course, to
DGMS> decide).
Hmm. I guess I would agree. I am uploading a new version of
psgml that tries to byte compile if make is not available. The
preference is for make to be used if available, but it shall try and
byte compile in the absence of make.
Vm is harder, since VM truly uses the functionality of make to
order the compilation. But I shall try to get as much of vm compiled
as possible too.
I think I second your request: what are the opinions about
making emacsen add-on packages depend on make? In the old days this
dependency was relegated to the maintainers machine, snd thus
irrelevant; but now if it is to be required on every machine the
package installs on ...
manoj
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