Re: Emacs addon packages--compile upon install?

1998-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Ben" == Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> This morning I uploaded a version of w3-el that doesn't compile upon Ben> installation--instead, there are separate precompiled packages for Ben> Emacs 19 and Emacs 20, plus a shared documentation package. I see Ben> this as a better w

Re: Emacs addon packages--compile upon install?

1998-10-18 Thread Richard Braakman
Michael Stone wrote: > Simple because you didn't have to worry about xemacs. For other > maintainers, they'd need e19, e20, xe19, and xe20. That would take what, > about 100M? Not so elegant. *shrug* The lesstif maintainer needs more than that just to compile his package :-) Supporting only a sp

Re: Emacs addon packages--compile upon install?

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm not sure what you mean by this. With w3-el, I just set it up to > build each flavor in a separate subdirectory; i.e., > > mkdir e19; cd e19; ../configure --with-emacs=emacs19; make > mkdir e20; cd e20; ../configure --with-emacs=emacs20; mak

Re: Emacs addon packages--compile upon install?

1998-10-18 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes: > I am trying to remember the rationale we had for making Emacs' addon > packages compile when they install themselves, and I can't remember > it. Perhaps you can remind me. The main reasons I recall were that we didn't want to have 4 (or more later) differe

Re: Emacs addon packages--compile upon install?

1998-10-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I agree that waiting for the large add-on packages to compile during installation is very aggravating. At the same time, it puts a lot of load on the maintainers to build so many byte-compiled versions. I'm not sure what you mean by this. With w3-el

Re: Emacs addon packages--compile upon install?

1998-10-18 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes: > This morning I uploaded a version of w3-el that doesn't compile upon > installation--instead, there are separate precompiled packages for > Emacs 19 and Emacs 20, plus a shared documentation package. I see > this as a better way to go than forcing the end-

Emacs addon packages--compile upon install?

1998-10-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
This morning I uploaded a version of w3-el that doesn't compile upon installation--instead, there are separate precompiled packages for Emacs 19 and Emacs 20, plus a shared documentation package. I see this as a better way to go than forcing the end-user to have to sit through a long compile (it c