On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:37:43 +0100 Mika Fischer <mika.fischer@zoopnet.de> wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently maintaining the ninja package on the AUR [1]. Recently, there has been an issue about which I'd like to ask for your advice:
ninja contains an files for emacs to support edititng the rules files of ninja. A user suggested that I compile the provided .el file to an .elc file. I did that, but then other users complained about the build-dependency on emacs. Now another user suggested that in the PKGBUILD, I should check whether emacs is installed and only then compile the .el file. I'm not totally opposed to this, but it feels a bit strange that the package is different, depending on the system it's built on.
What would you do in this situation?
I would leave it at .el files. Anyone who really cares about .elc files will already know how to create them. The speed difference won't be all that noticeable anyway. -- Jonathan Arnold Webstream: http://hieronymus.soup.io Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan