vm team mailing list archive

[Tim Cross <612222@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Jonathan Underwood <612222@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Vm] [Bug 612222] Re: Wishlist: Install NEWS in builds
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:00:36 -0000

> On 11 August 2010 14:38, Uday Reddy <u.s.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Uday S Reddy writes:
>>
>>> There were also the documentations of other non-gnu packages in
>>> /usr/share/doc, such as AucTeX, psgml etc.  So, it looks like gnu and
>>> non-gnu packages are treated differently.
>>
>> Our CentOS installation has a directory /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp,
>> and the various packages like Emacsspeak, AucTeX and psgml use this
>> for everything, including images, data, documentation etc.
>>
>> Does anybody else use this structure?
> 
> This is the structure we use for emacs add-on packages for Fedora etc
> simply because that's how things have been for a long time, and this
> is simply because upstream emacs only creates
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp by default, and hasn't given any
> consideration to how packages should structure themselves. Over time,
> packages have become more complex, adding images etc as well as lisp.
> To reiterate: this situation (i.e. dumping everything under site-lisp)
> is sub-optimal, and needs reconsidering. But it needs to be done in
> consultation with upstream emacs devs, so that it becomes a standard
> adopted by all add-on packages, not just something VM decides upon.
> And it needs to be standardized across distributions too. FWIW, xemacs
> has a much better structure for packages:
> 

I agree.

My suggestion is to hold off on making a decision here until after I've talked
to the elpa guys to find out what their plans are and whether we can make VM
elpa compatible. I'm hoping that ELPA can be the instrument that might get some
package stnadards for emacs add-ons. 

Tim

-- 
Wishlist: Install NEWS in builds
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612222
You received this bug notification because you are a member of VM
development team, which is a direct subscriber.

Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: Triaged

Bug description:
The VM NEWS file gets lost when distros install VM.  Change the build process so that it gets installed in emacs/etc.  

Ulrich thinks all VM-related files should go into a subdirectory $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc/vm.  Other files that could go into this subdirectory are 

CHANGES
README
TODO

Perhaps the images files should go here too?