MacOS?

[Rodney Sparapani]

Didier Verna wrote:
> skip at pobox.com wrote:
> 
>>     dvl> To be precise, I think XEmacs should consider:
>>     dvl> ~/Library/Application Support/XEmacs as the alternative to
>>     dvl> ~/.xemacs and also /Library/Application Support/XEmacs as the
>>     dvl> alternative to /usr/local/share/xemacs.
>>
> 
>   I believe these options already exist (although I never managed to
> understand the --with-{early/late/whatever}-package mess). To me, the
> question is more about the default values, which should conform to
> whatever "platform standards" exist.
> 
> IMHO, the native carbon port should use the paths I mentioned because it
> is the Mac Way. However, I still believe that an XEmacs compiled for X11
> on MacOS X is more Unix oriented and should stick to
> /usr/local/share/xemacs.
> 

Sorry for stripping email addresses, but, for me, tbird has problems 
with x-posting between newsgroups and email (to my chagrin, often either 
nothing gets sent or blank messages get sent).

My 2 cents.  I think we have already discussed this, but I'm too lazy to 
search for it right now.  I believe the consensus was that we should 
have both.  Let me elaborate it a little more since I don't think it was 
spelled out clearly.

So, suppose we are talking about ~/.xemacs and ~/Library/Application 
Support/XEmacs.  One of these is the real directory, say ~/.xemacs, and 
the other is a symlink to it.  This has the advantage that ~/.xemacs 
will not show up under the Finder with the default settings (and the 
non-default settings have other annoyances that I'm not going to get 
into), but ~/Library/Application\ Support/XEmacs does which is a nice 
convenience.  Similar arguments apply for /usr/local/share/xemacs (or is 
it /usr/local/lib/xemacs?) and /Library/Application Support/XEmacs.

This type of symlinking between Mac OS X and Unix directories is quite a 
common customization for those of us who are really Unix users, but have 
found a happy home on Mac OS X.

Rodney