[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 one can sensibly in the longer *use* both Think multi-user system. > If we do, there is probably no way around having the .el files in one > directory and compile .elc files to another emacs variant specific > directory. But again, this does not need to be that complicated. One > could install the .el files in the standard shared directory > (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp being my favourite, since this is the > default location) and then hack the bytecompiler to generate .elc > files into a subdirectory (say `.emacs-elc' and `.xemacs-elc') and > finally hack the loader to try the subdirectories first. Don't forget: > this is emacs, the extensible editor :-) Right, that's one of the proposals. > Separate packages such as auctex or cvs, which needs to install elisp > files, definitely should have one and only one central location to > stuff things into. Absolutely. > Requiring all packages to come compiled with both variants is NOT the > way to go. It will waste diskspace, both on users and for the > maintainers of packages containing elisp, that now *has* to have both > variants installed. That's my feeling. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
