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

[Paul Boekholt]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:44:24 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> said:

> If we implement the "build at install time" idea from Paul, we will have
> to include the *.sl files in jed-common.  This will force us to eliminate
> the jed-sl package.  Also, the "smaller size" argument would be moot,
> because the *.sl files are actually larger than the corresponding *.slc
> files.

True, but since .sl files probably compress better that .slc and .dfa files,
the difference is probably not so great.  Also you can save another 88k by
generating libfuns.txt from the .sl files.  This can be done with the sl2tm
and tm2txt programs from slang, or if these are not in the slang package with
the sed script in the JMR.

If building the JED binary package requires running the program to
byte-compile, you can't make a package for a different architecture than the
one you are running on since you can't run the built JED, also the .slc files
are not architecture indepedendent.