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Re: Subdirectories in package .tar archives
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Subdirectories in package .tar archives |
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Sat, 15 May 2021 17:42:22 -0400 |
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> Thank you. So, basically for *resource* files (i.e. not Elisp) and
> something unrelated to Info there are no real reasons to avoid
> subdirectories, right?
Yup.
> As long as one can generate packages as expected (probably not with
> MELPA, though maybe there is some hidden feature in it for this),
I don't know, but at least the specs used for GNU ELPA packages are
definitely able to generate tarballs with subdirectories.
I'd expect the same holds for MELPA.
> they will work fine and one could e.g. do something like
> `(defvar ... (somehow-load-resource "foo/bar.baz"))'?
Yes.
Stefan