>>>> It is not clear to me why the act of importing a runnable version of >>>> AUCTeX into ELPA should be precluded from running a Makefile rule. >>>> It is not like ELPA can directly access git repositories and extract >>>> whatever it wants, so the import will always involve explicit steps. >> Yes, GNU ELPA can and does "git pull" every day as part of its >> automatic procedure.
> If it expects a package to be in a finished state upon pulling, it means > that any standard GNU package (which requires ./configure && make && > sudo make install to work) is not supported. The GNU guidelines only require for it to be possible to use "./configure && make && make install". They don't prevent parallel use of other installation methods. I can easily accommodate a package with extra files like "configure" and "Makefile". > Basically you are asking that we throw away all configurability of > AUCTeX and convert its repository into an installed tree with a > "neutral" configuration. Not at all. > How will its Texinfo files get converted into documentation readable as > PDF or info? How will its intro.texi get converted into README by > makeinfo? After all, every GNU package should have a README, right? > Our current procedures create this README. These are indeed the questions I asked. I proposed 3 ways to do it, there might be more. None of these preclude keeping the existing make rules. >> That's the intention, indeed (tho not technically as a Git submodule, >> but morally equivalent). > "Morally equivalent"? You make it sound like you consider the current > AUCTeX repository immoral. Feeling argumentative today? Reread what I wrote: it is not talking about AUCTeX but about the technique used to include it in `elpa'. >> I'd be OK with splitting auctex into 2 packages, but does >> preview-latex work without auctex? > No. It would be nice to factor out some of its quite sophisticated > functionality into something independent from AUCTeX, LaTeX and in fact > also TeX, but at the current point of time preview-latex is not > independently useful. I'm not sure you're answering my question, so let me rephrase it: does it work with tex-mode.el? Stefan "who often uses tex-mode.el rather than AUCTeX, FWIW" _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel