Re: RFC: Emacs add-on packages and make.

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: RFC: Emacs add-on packages and make."):
...
> 	Please look at the emacsen policy for all flavours of Emacs
>  and add-on packages, which is bundled in with the emacsen-common
>  package. 

Thanks for the pointer.  (I didn't have a hamm system around to look
this up on.)

> 	This was indeed debated for a while, and decided on in this
>  list. The solution does have advantages, though it also has the
>  drawbacks you pointed out.
> 
> 	One may have a more meaningfull discussion after you have read
>  the document in question.

Indeed.  May I make some initial remarks ?

The document fails to say what the goals of the policy are.

AFAICT it fails to achieve the most important likely goal of such a
policy, namely that the (non)-existence of .elc files for a particular
flavour of emacs doesn't depend on the installation order.

I also note that install-time byte-compiling seems only to be
mentioned in the examples !

I should go and read the list archives.

Ian.


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