Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Regarding directory layout...

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-05-19) writes:

>>>> Hm, maybe the installation routine could rename an old version in
>>>> case it encounters one.  But I am not really fond of such
>>>> solutions.
>>>
>>> We have no business renaming a file in some directory which we are
>>> not otherwise touching or considering during installation.
>>
>> I should have expressed it more clearly that I was referring to the
>> directory which is used for the installation in concern.  We do a
>> similar thing with tex-site.el.
>
> I don't see that.  We install/rename tex-site.el into the load-path
> situated and/or detected site-lisp directory.  And we remove any
> tex-site.el that is in our own private auctex/ directory where we
> install all the rest.  We don't touch anything outside of that.

Since when is tex-site.el in an auctex/ directory?  Anyway, it seems I
still failed to make myself clear.  I suggested to deal with an old
bib-cite.el file only in the directory we are installing into,
i.e. when an existing installation gets overwritten.  I was not
talking about other instances of bib-cite.el outside of this
directory, like from a system installation.

> I think I will move it into the auctex subdirectory after all.  This
> makes the fewest conceptual problems, even though it means that if it
> is the only thing you want to use from AUCTeX, you'll have to load it
> yourself or add the auctex directory to your load-path.

Fine with me.

-- 
Ralf