Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: preview-latex 0.9.1 and AUCTeX 11.whatever

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

David Kastrup wrote:
> The question really is what it would buy us.  "call it from
> aclocal.m4" does not exactly like a recipe that would save Windows
> users from installing MSYS.  We still need all components, though we'd
> pass the threshold between them at fewer times.  So the basic
> complaint seems to be "David, we hate the EMACS_LISP macro". 

Not really. What I am saying, at least, is that I see an increased
complexity each time we get a bug report.

>  One problem is that the autoconf framework relies on a lot of
> shell variables that are not necessarily exported. 

I suppose we could use a verbatim "export" (the limitations of
"export" in Solaris 2.5, IRIX 6.3, IRIX 5.2, AIX 4.1.5, and
Digital UNIX 4.0 are of no consequence in this case).

> At the current point of time, we need the kind of glue that autoconf
> gives us into the build systems of distributions.  I think we might at
> one time duplicate some functionality into a runtime Emacs-Lisp only
> installer/configurator, but it would probably not be feasible to
> remove it completely.

I agree. But I see a process where we may end up with a configure script
which does nothing more than reads arguments and ships them to emacs.

As you said in an earlier message, if we start slowly, we'd miss
some shell-quoting bug reports along the way. I'd be very sorry to have
that happen :-)

> Anyway, at the moment I am mostly worried about getting 0.9.1
> finished, and then we will have to integrate AUCTeX and preview-latex
> installation procedures for getting a combined package out.  I don't
> think it would make sense to reorganize anything before those changes.

I agree here. (But I'd have preferred to join the two before the changes
of 0.9, but nevermind that now)

> And afterwards, it sounds like something that might be better done on
> a branch so as to not impede version turnout.

Not a problem either. Shipping new versions with some preceding warning
would achieve the same thing. In theory.

/JÅ