Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: >> I've hoped that with the new Git ELPA, we could just checkout the >> savannah auctex repository as submodule, and then add some hacks to the >> makefiles to produce tarballs suitable for ELPA. Won't work, no? > > No, because: > > I'd very much prefer not having to run code from > the package itself. > > so I can't just run your makefile rule(s).
Ok, I see. >>> So, the real problems are: >>> * Preview subdir: >>> I see two clean and easy ways to deal with: >>> - Split it (again) from AucTeX. >> I'd prefer to keep it in auctex. > > Good. > >>> - "mv preview/* ./; rmdir preview" >> I could live with that. But why is a subdirectory a problem in the >> first place? > > Because of the extra complexity in the build procedure. Remember: > it's very simplistic. How about simply omitting preview from the auctex elpa package (at least for now)? Maybe (later) we could have a separate preview-latex elpa package more or less by creating a symlink packages/preview-latex -> packages/auctex/preview and running the very simplistic build procedure in the former? >>> * The .dtx files: >>> Here, building the .sty during construction of the ELPA package is >>> not really an option. >> No LaTeX installed on the machine, or what's the matter? > > Same as "make": automatically running TeX code from random > contributors is too risky for my taste. But of course, TeX is not > installed on the machine either. By omitting preview, that would be solved, too. Bye, Tassilo _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
