[AC21.5] commit: Add support for installing bundled packages.

[Michael Sperber]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull at sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:

> Deleting xemacs-patches, I consider this discussion to pertain to a
> follow-on patch.
>
> Michael Sperber writes:

>  > Should we find these automatically for in-place operation?
>
> I'm not sure I understand your question.  I've always advocated that
> XEmacs should have two (sets of) installation roots: one for the core
> and one for the packages.  I would say that all configured hierarchies
> should be considered package roots regardless of whether xemacs is
> running in-place or not.  If you want a pure instance that only finds
> its own lisp and its own set of packages, configure --with-prefix=no
> and --with-user-packages="", and xemacs should look for packages only
> in src/../{xemacs,mule,site}-packages and its own Lisp in ../lisp.

If I understand your patch correctly, the user needs to specify the
bundled packages with --with-late-packages.  On the other hand, some
package directories are found automatically.  For instance, for in-place
installation, xemacs-packages and mule-packages in the build directory
are found.  Should we do the same for the bundled packages?  Or did I
misunderstand?

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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