Carbon.

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an dara lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Didier Verna: 

 >   Thanks for working on this !
 > 
 > While you're at it, I have a request: the build script says that the
 > executable searches for packages in ~/.xemacs OR in the application
 > bundle. I would like it to honor the Unix packages locations, or at least
 > provide ways to read user-specific places, then site-specific places, and
 > then the application bundle.
 > 
 > Something like [/Users/myself]/Libraries/Application Support/...) would
 > do it probably. I already have an X11 XEmacs installed on my Mac Book,
 > and it would be painless to symlink /usr/local/share/xemacs to some
 > place more along the Mac lines.

Well, in the Mac Carbon paradigm, which is the most sensible paradigm for
desktop machines, the “site-specific” idea is kind of irrelevant. So I don’t
think there exists a particularly clean way to do this, and if we’re going
to do ugly hacks, linking /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages to
~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages is probably the simplest and most effective
approach.

I suppose though it would make sense and be more userfriendly to look at the
most commonly used prefixes to see if the corresponding directories exist;
on my machine I have /usr/local (general GNU stuff built from source) and
/opt/local (DarwinPorts); are there further conventions for these things on
OS X?

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