Re: Installing binaries with package.el

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2017-02-07 10:07, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 08:12:21 -0500 Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> wrote: 
> 
> CP> My case is a bit different. The binary is just a bash wrapper around an 
> Emacs
> CP> Lisp program, so I don't have compilation-related issues; I do, however, 
> want my
> CP> users to be able to call the program easily, which probably means that I 
> want to
> CP> create binaries outside of my package's installation folder (which in 
> turns has
> CP> consequences on uninstallation behaviour: deleting the installation 
> folder isn't
> CP> enough).
> 
> There's a similar concern about installing Emacs modules from
> ELPA--they have to be compiled and installed at some point.

Compiled, yes; but do they need to be installed?