Re: Conversion to /package

Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote:
> All I ask is that it be delivered, if possible, as a single autoconf
> macro which the autoconf maintainers can drop into their archive.

I think more invasive changes would be needed to produce a "real"
slashpackage tarball with package/* scripts, etc.  But the impact on
package maintainers who use autoconf should still be just a one-line
addition to configure.ac.  And the quick and dirty option of producing
a traditional tarball with a "./configure --slashpacakge" option would
probably also have a low impact on the autoconf code itself.

> Then the users could only ask for a /package installation if the
> package maintainer had specified it.

Right.

> I do think it's quite important that AC_SLASHPACKAGE not
> *force* the app into /package, simply that it let the user
> specify it at configure time.

Or at tarball download time, yes.  If we force maintainers to commit
to a choice, that will discourage experimentation.


paul