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Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows
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Stephen Leake |
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Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows |
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Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:03:41 -0400 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> As part of my work on building the native MS-Windows Emacs using the
> Posix configury and Makefile's, I intend to change the structure of
> the installed Emacs directory tree, so that it more closely resembles
> installations on Posix systems. The details are below.
>
>
> Does anyone see any disadvantages in making these changes?
I gather we will just need %emacs_dir%/bin in Windows PATH (as we need
now), not also %emacs_dir%/libexec/emacs/VERSION/i686-pc-mingw32 (emacs
will put the latter in exec-path by default).
If that's true, then I see no problem.
> The advantages of this arrangement, as I see them, are
You left out:
(0) it simplifies the task of using the Posix configury
I think that's important.
> (1) it follows the installation tree on Posix platforms, so will make
> things easier for those who work on both kinds of platforms;
Yes, but only minimally. I work on both platforms currently, and have
never noticed that the Windows install was non-standard.
I think that's because Posix doesn't have %emacs_dir% as the root, so I
already think of Windows as being "just different".
> (2) it will become possible to have several Emacs versions installed
> that can be invoked without any need to tweak PATH or rename the DOC
> file;
I don't follow this; there is only one place for emacs.exe. Currently I
handle this by using a different %emacs_dir% for each emacs version.
I guess you could have %emacs_dir%/bin/emacs-VERSION.exe ? Does the
Posix install do that (I've seen that convention for some tools).
When I install an alternate Emacs version on a Posix system, I put it in
/usr/local/bin, with the original in /usr/bin.
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-- Stephe
- Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/04
- Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows, Xue Fuqiao, 2013/04/04
- Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows,
Stephen Leake <=
- Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/05
- Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2013/04/05
- Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/05
- Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2013/04/05
- Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/04/05
- Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows, chad, 2013/04/05
Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows, Andy Moreton, 2013/04/04