Bug#594750: ess: debian-pkg-add-load-path-item

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hola,

Thanks for follow-up!

On 2 September 2010 at 09:03, Kevin Ryde wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> writes:
| >
| >   (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item
| >    (concat "/usr/share/" (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor) "/site-lisp/ess"))
| 
| Yes, that's about right.

So ... just that and NOT the next block? Or both?
 
| >   ;; Put the uncompiled code in the path too
| >   (setq load-path (cons  (concat "/usr/share/"
| > 				 (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor)
| > 				 "/site-lisp/ess") load-path ))
| 
| This has the disadvantage of `M-x list-load-path-shadows' reporting the
| compiled code shadows the source (wrongly), because normally the .el
| should normally be in the same dir as the .elc.

Oh well. This is how we've done it for years and nobody complains.
 
| The best idea so far, and as used for instance in emacs-goodies-el, is
| to symlink the sources into /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess and simply
| leave them after compiling.  Ie. in
| /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ess the "cp" becomes "ln -s"
| and rm just the path.el compile helper.

That is a small change but I rather not muck with a working system. I think I
may leave it as is.

Dirk

-- 
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com