Am 18.12.2012 21:46, schrieb William Giokas:
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 08:37:43PM +0100, Mika Fischer wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently maintaining the ninja package on the AUR [1]. Recently,
there has been an issue about which I'd like to ask for your advice:
ninja contains an files for emacs to support edititng the rules files
of ninja. A user suggested that I compile the provided .el file to an
.elc file. I did that, but then other users complained about the
build-dependency on emacs. Now another user suggested that in the
PKGBUILD, I should check whether emacs is installed and only then
compile the .el file. I'm not totally opposed to this, but it feels a
bit strange that the package is different, depending on the system
it's built on.
What would you do in this situation?
I would just simply comment out the emacs stuff and leave a note for
users that want to compile that in. Or you can do it the other way and
put in the emacs stuff, uncommented, and users have to comment it out
themselves.
I second that. Byte compiled files would not be usable for users using
xemacs or sxemacs.
