Re: Installing binaries with package.el

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2017-02-07 00:29, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> On 2017-02-07, at 03:09, Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi emacs-devel,
>> 
>> Can package.el install binaries?  That is, if my package includes a
>> command line interface, can I ask package.el to install it to
>> somewhere like .emacs.d/bin, or ~/.bin?  Or should I do this by
>> adding autoloaded code that runs at package installation time?
> 
> What do I know, but doesn't pdf-tools do that exactly?

Cool.  Can you explain a bit more?  AFAICT pdf-tools tries to compile a C 
program as part of its installation; is that what you had in mind?  Or does 
pdf-tools also install a binary somewhere (with the expectation that the user 
would add it to their path)?

Thanks!
Clément.