Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Repository for RefTeX

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2007-01-27) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Speaking about cans of worms ...  How about trying to implement a
>> Lisp-based build procedure for RefTeX?  Here we have the chance to
>> start more or less from scratch.
>
> It's not like we would not have this option with AUCTeX if we really
> wanted to.

Of course.  But AUCTeX's installation routine now is so feature-ritch
that it will take considerable effort to get to the same functionality
with Lisp.

>> That would also spare us complaints of users having to download and
>> install build tools separately.
>
> A valid point on Windows.
>
> IIRC, Miles posted some installer tool written in Elisp on
> emacs-devel, something to which Richard said "if a package system
> would look like that, I would not object to it".  Something left to
> for after the release IIRC.

IIRC this was Stefan's install.el.  See
<URL:http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/elisp/install.el>.

-- 
Ralf