Re: BBDB v3 approaching release

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 30 May 2013, Roland Winkler wrote:

> The problem is really that the TeX files generated by bbdb-print
> connect two different worlds:

Sure, these are the more interesting cases. Other such examples
include AUCTeX, SLIME, and Pymacs. Installation is trivial if a
package consists of elisp files only.

> The TeX file is generated by emacs that comes with its search path
> and installation tree. But then this TeX file gets compiled by the
> TeX command that only knows its own search paths.

> And all this happens in a user directory so that everything should
> not depend on the absolute directories used by the particular
> installations of emacs and TeX.

That's why there are distros that set up things such that different
pieces of software fit together, and work for the user out of the box.
Of course, it will help if the package is configurable and can adapt
to different environments.

Ulrich