Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com writes:
I think the tricky part is filesystem operations. Currently in CVS we assume a shared filesystem, but if you stay away from FS-related operations you can probably still do some useful things without one. Brian's patch adds support for having a shared filesystem but with different mount points (apparently common with SMB). On Cliki,
I haven't tried this, but if it can be set to rewrite, say, /home/telent/foo.lisp to /telent@ww.telent.net:/home/telent/foo.lisp, it looks like it will already work with tramp. At least, find-file-noselect does. Do we load files anywhere without the aid of find-file{,-noselect}?
package). Maybe there is an opporunity to do something Fancy with the `host' field of logical pathnames even?
Set Phasers To Maximum Pain
LPNs work nicely if you've already designed the entire build system around them, but they're in no way good at representing arbitrary filenames.
-dan