Re: [STUMP] Please consider removing module.lisp.in.

[Ben Spencer]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 06:42:25PM +0800, Desmond O. Chang wrote:
> > I too don't really use the autotools stuff for stumpwm (just for
> > generating *.lisp from *.lisp.in). But, I wonder if this thing is not
> > more or less mandatory for people *packaging* stumpwm for different
> > distros, OS,...
> 
> I maintain the debian package now.  I just install the lisp code into
> the system.  The contrib dir can be determined by asdf2 at runtime.
> But I configure it in the packaging script currently.  Debian's
> version number is in debian/changelog, the packaging script extracts
> it then generates version.lisp again.

The debian package is one approach, but I don't think it's
unreasonable to assume that other distros might want to simply
distribute a binary.

If you're generating your own version.lisp anyway, why can't you
generate your own module.lisp?  I'm not really clear what problem
you're trying to solve.

Ben