Re: Filename problem in CEDET merge

[Eric M. Ludlam]

Hi,

  First, I just want to say, that if needed, I don't mind doing some
renames to simplify maintenance.  As for having CEDET not work on DOS, I
suppose that is up to the folks who use DOS.

Alternately, here is an experiment you can try.  If the directory

~/lisp

  is in your load path, and you create:

~/lisp/hack/fooble.el

  with the contents:

-----------
; A hack.
(provide 'hack/fooble)
-----------

then you can do this:

(require 'hack/fooble)

and Emacs finds it and loads it.  This could be a magic way to have
"long" file names on DOS.  Just providing 'fooble won't work.

My preference, of course, is the current naming convention, but this
might work too.

Eric

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 18:50 -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
> While working on the CEDET merge, I've come across a problem with the
> 8+3 filename restriction.
> 
> Semantic, CEDET's parser library, contains filenames that look like
> this:
> 
>  semantic.el
>  semantic-analyze.el
>  semantic-analyze-complete.el
>  semantic-analyze-debug.el
> 
> These clearly break the 8+3 limit.  In the past, we've dealt with this
> by renaming files, e.g. shortening "semantic" to "sem", but even this
> fails:
> 
>  sem-analyze.el
>  sem-analyze-complete.el
>  sem-analyze-debug.el
> 
> Renaming would also have the extremely bad effect of diverging from the
> CEDET upstream, which I'd like to avoid if possible.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions for resolving this problem?  As far as
> possible, it should remain possible to untar and compile Emacs on DOS,
> though it's acceptable if the CEDET library doesn't work on DOS.
> 
>