[Pkg-jed-devel] Re: do not load jed.conf

Rafael Laboissiere Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:54:34 +0200


[Cc: to pkg-jed-devel]

* Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@hetnet.nl> [2005-04-22 14:21]:

> Presumably jed-sl includes the slang sources.  Is there any reason for
> including .slc and .dfa files as well?  When I switched from slang 1 to
> slang 2, I had to remove all my .slc files.  After that I haven't
> byte-compiled, but I don't rule out that a .slc file compiled with
> slang 2 pre 7 doesn't work with slang 2 pre 8, etc.  So I think you
> should do any byte-compiling in the install script, which would also
> make the package smaller of course.

Building the .slc files at install time is indeed a good idea.  BTW, the
(X)Emacs packages in Debian use this approach to build the .elc.  We
might implement this for the the jed-common Debian package.

-- 
Rafael