Re: emacs packaging (emacs-popup)

[Federico Beffa]

Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm packaging emacs-popup.
>
> Currently the output builds with
> address@hidden ~/projects/guix_project/guix$ ls -al
> /gnu/store/knpjk9vflja0i6yhnz4ai57k29jpgm4p-emacs-popup-0.5.3/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/popup-0.5.3/
> total 180
> dr-xr-xr-x 4 root guixbuild  4096 Jan  1  1970 ./
> dr-xr-xr-x 3 root guixbuild  4096 Jan  1  1970 ../
> -r--r--r-- 2 root guixbuild    90 Jan  1  1970 Cask
> dr-xr-xr-x 3 root guixbuild  4096 Jan  1  1970 etc/
> -r--r--r-- 2 root guixbuild    14 Jan  1  1970 .gitignore
> -r--r--r-- 2 root guixbuild   626 Jan  1  1970 Makefile
> -r--r--r-- 2 root guixbuild   334 Jan  1  1970 popup-autoloads.el
> -r--r--r-- 2 root guixbuild 54848 Jan  1  1970 popup.el
> -r--r--r-- 2 root guixbuild 75474 Jan  1  1970 popup.elc
> -r--r--r-- 2 root guixbuild 10187 Jan  1  1970 README.md
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root guixbuild  4096 Jan  1  1970 tests/
> -r--r--r-- 2 root guixbuild   569 Jan  1  1970 .travis.yml
>
> Can this be improved, ie remove some of the files to clean it up,
> or is it all good?

I would suggest to move the README.md (and in general documentation
related files) to $datadir/doc/package-name-version/. Info files to
$datadir/info/package-name-version/. Take a look at 'emacs-slime'.

Remove unused files like .gitignore, ...

Regards,
Fede