Emacspeak discussion list

[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

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My lisp uses that exact variable, the purpose of the bash script is just to 
find which emacs to run and call my lisp code.

The purpose of this is for people using the cutting edge version of swiftmac, 
they can use "make install" to place it in the emacspeak directory.  This 
does not impact the contributed code in anyway, as it doesn't need to find 
the emacspeak directory, and does not contain this pair of finding scripts.  

So, if I should not use a shell script to run emacs or emacspeak to find 
where to install the swiftmac files to, how do you recommend I do it?  User 
input? 

> On Jan 9, 2024, at 13:01, T.V Raman <raman AT google.com> wrote:
> 
> I would advice against doing this. Emacspeak is designed to work from
> under a single directory -- rather than splattering its files around the
> filesystem. See how variable emacspeak-directory is defined --
> everything anchors on it. Any shell script you create will be fragile
> because it gets more and more complex in the face of "handle different
> use cases". This is also why emacspeak abandoned the make install rule,
> leaving it to distros to do what they found most suitable;  
> --