package-name-to-directory (was Problem making bindist of ruby-modes)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mike Kupfer writes:

 > It turns out that in addition to setting 
 > 
 >     AUTOLOAD_PATH = lisp
 > 
 > I had to edit package-name-to-directory (in package-compile.el), to tell
 > it that the mh-e sources live now live in a "lisp" directory.

Yup.  So many "quick hacks that turned out broken" to fix, so little time.

 > Proposal:
 > 
 > I was thinking it would be better to generate some or all of
 > package-name-to-directory on the fly, using the AUTOLOAD_PATH settings
 > in the makefiles.

Please make it "none" or "all", or somebody will have to go through
this again in the future.  I think AUTOLOAD_PATH is a good choice,
since it should be smack in the middle of the Lisp code anyway.

 > Does anyone see a problem with doing this?

I don't see any technical problem.  But before actually putting any
work into it, make sure that Norbert Koch is on-board---he has an
absolute veto over anything that he thinks will make his life harder,
as far as I'm concerned. :-)