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melpa / package-build

Tools for assembling a package archive
https://github.com/melpa/melpa
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Add `bin` directory to the default list of packaged files #25

Closed Fuco1 closed 6 years ago

Fuco1 commented 6 years ago

I think the convention is pretty wide spread, all packages that have a binary store it in a bin directory and adding that explicitly complicates things.

I'm pretty sure this wouldn't break anything and it would make packaging simpler. Also it would fix issues like this: https://github.com/cask/cask/issues/395#issuecomment-418083153

purcell commented 6 years ago

In many cases elisp is part of a larger project, e.g. a language implementation which also has an Emacs major mode. I think blanket inclusion of bin would therefore be the wrong thing to do in the majority of cases.