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Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions
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Michael Olson |
Subject: |
Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions |
Date: |
Fri, 25 May 2007 21:32:14 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) |
Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> I know that sharing bytecode is bad. I just didn't know what to do
> about it.
>
> It would be pretty easy to have separate package universes depending
> on what Emacs you are running. But that doesn't seem very
> user-friendly. Putting the bytecode elsewhere could be done but I
> gather that this doesn't work too well in some situations. package.el
> could re-byte-compile everything when it detects that you switched
> Emacs -- this would be fine for cases like "I upgraded my system and
> got a new Emacs", but it would be very unfriendly for other cases.
> And of course there's always "don't byte compile at all", but that
> would probably rule out installing some of the larger and more
> performance-sensitive packages.
>
> Anyway, I'm open to implementing whatever the Emacs experts agree is
> the best solution.
I would recommend doing things in the following way.
Store the byte code in subdirectories like
~/.emacs.d/elpa/emacs-22.0.98.1/. Ensure that symlinks in that
directory exist that point to the source files in ~/.emacs/elpa/. When
elpa is started, it should only add the proper version-specific
subdirectory to the load-path. If under Windows, package.el would
simply copy every source file to the subdirectory rather than use a
symlink.
If package.el is run from a "new" version of Emacs/XEmacs/SXEmacs during
startup, it will display a message like "Byte-compiling ELPA packages
for <Emacs variant and version>", create the directory, copy or symlink
source files to it (also create subdirectories of symlinks/copies for
larger projects that have their own elpa subdirectory), byte compile
that directory, and add it to load-path.
Here's some code that could be used to detect the current Emacs variant
and version. I'm just guessing about the (featurep 'sxemacs) part
because I have yet to use SXEmacs.
(defun package-get-emacs-version (&optional display-friendly)
"Return a string that describes the current variant and version of Emacs.
If DISPLAY-FRIENDLY is non-nil, return a string that would be
useful as part of a displayed message.
Otherwise, return a string of the form \"<variant>-<version>.\""
(let ((variant (cond ((featurep 'sxemacs) "SXEmacs")
((featurep 'xemacs) "XEmacs")
(t "Emacs")))
(version (cond ((featurep 'xemacs)
(concat (number-to-string emacs-major-version)
"." (number-to-string emacs-minor-version)
"." (number-to-string emacs-patch-level)))
(t emacs-version))))
(if display-friendly
(concat variant " " version)
(concat (downcase variant) "-" version))))
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- package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions, Trent Buck, 2007/05/21
- Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions, Trent Buck, 2007/05/26
- Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/05/26
- Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions, Richard Stallman, 2007/05/26
- Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions, Trent Buck, 2007/05/26
- Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions, David Kastrup, 2007/05/27
- Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions, Richard Stallman, 2007/05/27
- Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions, David Kastrup, 2007/05/28