From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:27:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tylce24o.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r5ggs6u6.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk
Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> OK, so we're agreed. But your points below don't seem to describe a less
> technical route. Could you describe the less technical version of the
> instructions for the method that you are advocating?
Installing is something technical and I'm a tech-head, so you're asking
something of me I'm not really qualified to do. :-)
My points were:
- I think that a proper installation via make is the way to go, but I
recognize that some folks don't want or need to do that.
- There is a default place where Emacs expects this kind of stuff and
has some magic implemented to make it work without further
configuration, and that place is site-lisp. You can put it someplace
else, but then you have to alter the load-path or you are at the mercy
of some special configuration to make the same magic work in other
places, too (I've had ~/lisp set up that way when I was still
compiling Emacs myself).
- If org was delivered and compiled in 'org/' rather than 'lisp/', one
could instruct users to just take that folder and copy/drag it into
the site-lisp directory of their Emacs installation. You can do that
with the lisp folder, but I'd at least tell people to please rename it
to org after doing the copy.
If you want to get any less technical than that, I'd suggest ELPA or
something like it (as has been discussed already in another thread).
ELPA packages build and configure themselves as far as possible, so that
should take out the guesswork for novice users. Also it looks like it
will come standard with Emacs24 (with a GNU archive and the possibility
to add additional archives, which could take care of the "bleeding
edge"), so there will be absolutely no "installation" work required from
the user from then on.
Regards,
Achim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-26 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-26 13:33 [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions Dan Davison
2010-09-26 13:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-09-26 13:52 ` A. Ryan Reynolds
2010-09-26 14:21 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-26 14:52 ` Dan Davison
2010-09-26 15:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-26 15:02 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-26 21:00 ` Rémi Vanicat
2010-09-27 6:23 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-26 20:51 ` Adam
2010-09-26 14:51 ` John Hendy
2010-09-26 17:37 ` Achim Gratz
2010-09-26 18:22 ` Dan Davison
2010-09-26 19:27 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2010-09-26 20:57 ` ELPA [WAS] " Dan Davison
2010-09-28 10:52 ` Scot Becker
2010-09-28 14:55 ` Jambunathan K
2010-09-28 17:48 ` ELPA Eric Schulte
2010-09-28 18:35 ` ELPA Sebastian Rose
2010-09-28 18:59 ` ELPA Achim Gratz
2010-09-28 19:09 ` ELPA Richard Riley
2010-09-28 20:43 ` ELPA Scot Becker
2010-09-27 6:26 ` [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions Carsten Dominik
2010-09-27 9:00 ` Dan Davison
2010-09-27 9:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-27 10:50 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-09-27 12:55 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-27 13:53 ` Dan Davison
2010-09-27 14:06 ` Sebastian Rose
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