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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX |
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Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:48:14 -0400 |
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>> It is not clear to me why the act of importing a runnable version of
>> AUCTeX into ELPA should be precluded from running a Makefile rule. It
>> is not like ELPA can directly access git repositories and extract
>> whatever it wants, so the import will always involve explicit steps.
Yes, GNU ELPA can and does "git pull" every day as part of its
automatic procedure.
> The new Git ELPA could have the savannah auctex repository as a
> submodule, so there wouldn't be two individual auctex repositories that
> need to me synchronized manually.
That's the intention, indeed (tho not technically as a Git submodule,
but morally equivalent).
>>> By omitting preview, that would be solved, too.
>> preview-latex is an integral part of AUCTeX by now.
I tend to agree with this. I'm not sure of the potential
technical/documentation problems, but in terms of user expectation
I definitely want preview-latex to be installed when you install auctex.
> Stefan said that the additional auctex/preview/ directory was a problem
> for the ELPA build procedure, so I suggested to have the ELPA auctex
> package not contain it (the directory would still exist in the ELPA
> auctex git submodule). Then we could possibly have a separate
> preview-latex ELPA package by just symlinking packages/preview-latex to
> packages/auctex/preview/. So I actually don't propose to rip preview
> out of auctex, just to split it into two ELPA packages in order to cope
> with the simplistic ELPA build procedure.
I'd be OK with splitting auctex into 2 packages, but does preview-latex
work without auctex? If not, that means we'd need to put the
dependencies in the "wrong" direction (i.e. users wouldn't automatically
get preview-latex when they install auctex).
It seems simpler to do the "mv preview/* ./; rmdir preview".
Stefan
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX, Tassilo Horn, 2013/09/03
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX, David Kastrup, 2013/09/03
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX, Tassilo Horn, 2013/09/03
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX, David Kastrup, 2013/09/03
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/03
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX, David Kastrup, 2013/09/03
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/05
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- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/13