Re: Distributing packages with native emacs modules

[Immanuel Litzroth]

Thanks for the helpful messages, I think I'm going to go with the
solution in the
pdftools package of compiling the module (in their case it's a program
I think) when
the user first tries to load the file.
Immanuel

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:06 PM Stephen Leake
<stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
>
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> > Actually, IIUC the `ada-mode` package in GNU ELPA also kind of does
> > that, except I believe it uses a separate executable rather than
> > a module.  [ I believe the same applies to `pdf-tools`.  ]
>
> Yes. The installed package includes a file build.sh; the README
> instructs the user to invoke that shell script to compile and install
> the executable.
>
> I did not try to automate invoking build.sh; this package doesn't change
> often, and there are often issues with compiler version compatibility,
> so requiring the user to manually invoke build.sh has not been a
> problem.
>
> It helps that this is for ada-mode and the code is written in Ada; users
> of ada-mode are used to running the Ada compiler.
>
> --
> -- Stephe



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