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

[David Kastrup]

Jan-Åke Larsson <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>> Another thing: if the site-lisp directory has a readable
>> sub-directory site-start.d, should we relocate preview-latex.el
>> there automatically (unless --without-sitestartdir is specified or
>> something)?  Seems like a reasonable assumption, and would probably
>> simplify installation instructions quite a bit.
>
> Hmmm. Aren't these directories sometimes populated with numbered
> entries?  On my Solaris machine, this is not the case, but...

So what?  The numbers are for guaranteeing a certain load order.
preview-latex.el does not depend on any particular load order.  Load
it before AUCTeX or after it.  Does not make a difference.

It would probably be polite to provide an option for renaming
preview-latex.el to the package system specific naming scheme.

But I doubt that it is _necessary_ for making a user installation
work.

> Another suggestion: we _could_ have an --enable-relocatable switch
> for activating this relative stuff instead of specifying relative
> directories as input to a number of switches and not to others.

I don't see what such a switch would be supposed to actually do.

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