Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Uh, problem...

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-06-11) writes:
>
>> So how about keeping those files separate in the source tree, but
>> pasting them together in the respective binary package installations?
>> Should we be pasting them together at all, or rather keep them
>> separate also in the trees where we install them?  I'd almost lean
>> towards the latter solution.
>
> I'd like to avoid separate *.preview files completely.  That means the
> files should contain information for both AUCTeX and preview-latex in
> the source distribution and in binary distributions containing
> preview-latex.  In binary distributions lacking preview-latex the
> respective information should be omitted from those files.

So what do you suggest?  Do an sed job when creating the binary
distributions, cutting out the preview-latex parts at installation
time?

Rerunning makeinfo is not really an option: one of our goals in
packaging was that makeinfo would only be required after source
changes.  So we should not touch the README and INSTALL in the source
tree.

> This way we will be able to avoid clutter in the respective
> directories and will be safe if some package systems or some such
> can only handle README, INSTALL, etc. but not additional
> README.preview etc.  (I am not sure if something like this can be a
> problem, but who knows ...)

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