about auctex port for FreeBSD

[Martin Kammerhofer]

On 2002-01-27 Yoichi NAKAYAMA wrote:

: Dear auctex port's maintainer
:
[snip]
:
: My proposal is as follows:
:
: 1 Abolish xemacs support in print/auctex.

Personally I do not use xemacs and have not tested auctex with
xemacs. Since you told me that auctex is already part of the
standard xemacs lisp packages collection, I agree to terminate
support for xemacs in auctex.

: 2.0 Use bsd.emacs.mk.
: 2.1 Depend on emacs21 by default.

I agree.

: 2.2 Install to emacs' version specific directory
: 2.3 Add suffix for packages.
: 2.4 Add stub port for emacs20 as print/auctex-emacs20.
: (simply set EMACS_PORT_NAME=emacs20 in its Makefile)

I do not see any benefits for the users. Afaik auctex (the lisp files
themselves) do not depend in any way on emacsen-version. If one package
fits all, why should the force users to install/upgrade different packages
for different emacsen?

: 3 Remove 2-byte chars from Makefile.
:

I do not understand what you mean by '2-byte chars'. If you are
suggesting to replace the broken-bars (Ś) with an ascii character
like semicolon (;) - well, I do not have any objections.

: No.2 in above is to arrange auctec port like other emacs lisp
: ports e.g. speedbar,ecb,tramp, etc.
:

I think uniformity of ports is not as important as ease of use. As I
pointed out above, the possibility of sharing one installed auctex package
among different emacs version is convenient for users.

: Would you give me some comment or approval for my proposal, please?
:

Finally thank you for pointing out, that
".if exists(${LOCALBASE}/bin/xemacs)" is ineffective, because of
wrong placement inside the Makefile. If we drop xemacs support we do
not need this code fragment any more.

Best regards,
Martin Kammerhofer

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[Yoichi NAKAYAMA]

At Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:36:54 +0100 (CET),

Martin Kammerhofer <mk...@utanet.at> wrote:
> : 2.2 Install to emacs' version specific directory
> : 2.3 Add suffix for packages.
> : 2.4 Add stub port for emacs20 as print/auctex-emacs20.
> : (simply set EMACS_PORT_NAME=emacs20 in its Makefile)
>
> I do not see any benefits for the users. Afaik auctex (the lisp files
> themselves) do not depend in any way on emacsen-version. If one package
> fits all, why should the force users to install/upgrade different packages
> for different emacsen?

I'm not sure but byte-comiled *.elc might depend on other lisps
while byte-compiling.

> : 3 Remove 2-byte chars from Makefile.
> :
>
> I do not understand what you mean by '2-byte chars'. If you are

> suggesting to replace the broken-bars ( ) with an ascii character

> like semicolon (;) - well, I do not have any objections.

Yes. As your message encoded as quoted-printable, it should be
replaced, I think.

> : No.2 in above is to arrange auctec port like other emacs lisp
> : ports e.g. speedbar,ecb,tramp, etc.
> :
>
> I think uniformity of ports is not as important as ease of use. As I
> pointed out above, the possibility of sharing one installed auctex package
> among different emacs version is convenient for users.

I agree except above reason. If it does not matter, I will consider
to put EMACS_NO_RUN_DEPENDS=yes and install share/emacs/site-lisp/.

Regards,
--
Yoichi Nakayama