Re: [Texmacs-dev] Monitoring changes in mainline

[Nix N. Nix]

On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 04:54, address@hidden wrote:
> Then you hit some peculiarities of TeXmacs source tree. The version
> number is hardcoded in may files (and a major directory name) so what
> you propose is either plain unusuable (if the directory name issue is
> not fixed) or will introduce a lot of noise (because of harcoded
> version numbers).
> 
> If the version number issues are not fixed that is not usable.

This I have also noticed and it is a very Bad Thing.  To have
<prefix>/share/TeXmacs-<version>/... has some really bad side effects. 
For example, if I create a new .scm file (as I did with
tmtm-brackets.scm) and perform rpm -e to remove TeXmacs, the directory
is left behind.  If it was simply <prefix>/share/TeXmacs/..., as it
should be (in order to be more "compliant", I think), it would get
overwritten.  In addition the install script(let) could perform a

rm -rf ${prefix}/share/TeXmacs

to ensure a pristine installation every time.