Re: Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-19 Thread Christian Lynbech
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manoj Hi, Christian == Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian I am not quite so pessimistic about the possibilities of Christian recompiling installed elisp files. Manoj Please, people, do download the sources for tm and

Re: Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-19 Thread Milan Zamazal
Two further small reasons against install time .el compilation of large packages: 1. I have to install .el sources even when I don't need them. 2. Slow installation. The first is a problem on computers with limited disk space (e.g. my laptop). The second is the problem when I perform major

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-18 Thread Christian Lynbech
Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and others) writes: Rob Think multi-user system. Point taken. I was thinking in singleuser system terms. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University

Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-18 Thread Christian Lynbech
I am not quite so pessimistic about the possibilities of recompiling installed elisp files. I see three situations where makefile do special things in order to compile elisp files: 1) generating/editing .el files (gnats and tm are examples of this) at build-time. This is not a problem since

Re: Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) generating/editing .el files (gnats and tm are examples of this) at build-time. This is not a problem since the generated .el file is installed as part of the .deb file. This is a problem if these packages need to work with both emacs and

Re: Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Christian == Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian I am not quite so pessimistic about the possibilities of Christian recompiling installed elisp files. Please, people, do download the sources for tm and compile a local copy before you display such unwarranted

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-18 Thread Brian White
I've had a look at all the current packages, details are below (some programs are probably fine). I think most of these packages should be fixed is someway - either: depending on emacs|xemacs description includes does not work with Xemacs description includes already included with

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the emacs package being renamed into emacs19? (I saw several mentions of that name.) If so, could not both emacs19 and xemacsnn both Provides: emacs? The new emacs package is going to be named emacs20. The older one may or may not be renamed to

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
Sten Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If elisp files should be compiled in a postinst script, then which postint script should do it? It should just be handled the same way as the menu package. It'll usually be the postinst of the package installing the .el files. All of these packages

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Sten Anderson
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It should just be handled the same way as the menu package. You are right, it might be possible. You would know that better than me anyway. But I don't like the idea because it is unnecessary. Why should a resource-hungry emacs compilation be executed

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
Sten Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are right, it might be possible. You would know that better than me anyway. But I don't like the idea because it is unnecessary. Why should a resource-hungry emacs compilation be executed just to install dpkg-dev? Is it really that important that

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Sten Anderson
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I haven't investigated the compilation resource requirements that thoroughly [1], Well, neither have I, so you are excused :-) [1] Though is it really that big a deal as long as it gets forked off to the background like the TeX or manpage

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
Sten Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Imagine the initial dselect session. A zillion packages with elisp files are being installed simultaneously with one or two emacsen... No, you'd want to do it like the menu package. If I understand correctly, menu forks off into the background waiting

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Also consider the fact that all maintainers may not have enough resources to have all possible flavours of Emacsen on their machines (Xemacs19, Xemacs20, emacs19, emacs20, emacs20-no-mule, Xemacs-no-mule, ...), and keep track of which versions were elc compatible anyway.

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
I think the number one question we need to address is whether we want to support running Xemacs and GNU emacs at the *same* time. If we do not, it becomes more difficult for users to test out the other, but it becomes much easier to maintain the emacs setup. I do not believe that one can sensibly

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Arto Astala
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sten Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are right, it might be possible. You would know that better than me anyway. But I don't like the idea because it is unnecessary. Why should a resource-hungry emacs compilation be executed just to install

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Milan Zamazal
CL == Christian Lynbech on satellite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CL: I think the number one question we need to address is whether we CL: want to support running Xemacs and GNU emacs at the *same* time. Of course we want. There are some *multiuser* Debian machines. :-) Milan Zamazal

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Milan Zamazal
MS == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS: Hi, Also consider the fact that all maintainers may not have MS: enough resources to have all possible flavours of Emacsen on MS: their machines (Xemacs19, Xemacs20, emacs19, emacs20, MS: emacs20-no-mule, Xemacs-no-mule, ...),

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Arto == Arto Astala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Arto How about rigging emacsen so that when they start they will Arto compile these? It may even come as side effect of your scheme Arto already? I rarely need to run Emacs as root, so this will not work for me (apart from being ugly; my

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
From: Milan Zamazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package. Date: 17 Dec 1997 13:37:49 +0100 What I would prefer as a user is to have multiple packages: foo-el.deb foo-elc-emacs.deb foo-elc-xemacs.deb foo-elc-whateveremacs.deb ... In debian

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also consider the fact that all maintainers may not have enough resources to have all possible flavours of Emacsen on their machines (Xemacs19, Xemacs20, emacs19, emacs20, emacs20-no-mule, Xemacs-no-mule, ...), and keep track of which

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Lynbech on satellite) writes: I think the number one question we need to address is whether we want to support running Xemacs and GNU emacs at the *same* time. The answer is if it's not an unbelievable technical obstacle, then yes, we do. I do not believe that

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Buddha Buck
I think the number one question we need to address is whether we want to support running Xemacs and GNU emacs at the *same* time. Yes, we do want to support running both Emacsen. I don't see how dropping one for the other can even be considered a viable option. If we do not, it becomes more

Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
Mark recently informed me that he'd accepted my offer to work on the new emacs20 package. I just wanted to let everyone know that I was getting started. I'd like to get something out very soon, but the holidays may interfere a little. Feel free to let me know if you have suggestions about how

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Sten Anderson
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Feel free to let me know if you have suggestions about how this package should be handled. I'm planning to cooperate with the xemacs and emacs (19) package maintainers to make sure we support the simultaneous installation of all three packages. I am

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Mark recently informed me that he'd accepted my offer to work on the new emacs20 package. I just wanted to let everyone know that I was getting started. I'd like to get something out very soon, but the holidays may interfere a little. I had already offered to package up emacs20

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Adam P. Harris
[CC trimmed to debian-devel] [Raul Miller] Hmm.. seems like XEmacs should Provide: auctex. I can't see any formal problem if auctex is installed as a separate package as well... [Why someone would want to is beyond me.] What if you have Xemacs *and* Emacs installed, and want to use auctex

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
Adam P. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What if you have Xemacs *and* Emacs installed, and want to use auctex from both? My suggestion would be that whichever package provides auctex, whether it's xemacs or a separate package, would register the .el files somehow so that when say emacs20 is

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Raul Miller
Adam P. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if you have Xemacs *and* Emacs installed, and want to use auctex from both? Last time (a couple weeks ago) I tried selecting both xemacs and emacs, I found that they conflicted. -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Raul == Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raul Hmm.. seems like XEmacs should Provide: auctex. I can't see Raul any formal problem if auctex is installed as a separate Raul package as well... [Why someone would want to is beyond Raul me.] There's support for that in

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 12:01:28PM +0500, Adam P. Harris wrote: [You (Sten Anderson)] I am not a developer, but I have a few comments. When I run dselect, I see some Emacs packages as seperate deb packages, e.g. auctex. Now, I prefer XEmacs, which includes auctex, but how could I know

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Sten Anderson
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For .el files like debian-changelog-mode.el that are generic enough elisp that they should work with any emacs (19, 20, or x) we need a shared directory or something. The only problem with this is that when the files are byte-compiled there's a naming