From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chad Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:30:14 -0800 Message-ID: <0F5943F1-3852-4193-9F69-44356A261A98@MIT.EDU> References: <87ei6mz24h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <20110306072147.GA11067@event-horizon.homenet> <871v2i525h.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299609039 7307 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2011 18:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Dimitri Fontaine Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 19:30:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px1ft-0002Gu-K9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:30:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px1ft-0002sk-3U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57331 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px1fn-0002sc-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:30:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px1fm-0007oY-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-6.mit.edu ([18.7.68.35]:64024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px1fm-0007oM-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:30:18 -0500 X-AuditID: 12074423-b7bd0ae000000a00-7b-4d7675ba44f7 Original-Received: from mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu ( [18.9.21.35]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-6.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id 63.A2.02560.AB5767D4; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:30:18 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id p28IUH0H003065; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.3] (c-67-183-32-38.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.183.32.38]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id p28IUFjm009189 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:30:17 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAARePPVM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 18.7.68.35 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136898 Archived-At: On Mar 8, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Chad Brown writes: >> Put another another way, I think that the >> snippet of code that can't be a package or in site-lisp but that >> several users want to share and use automatically is really unlikely >> to exist. >=20 > Ever heard about emacswiki? I think that you haven't been following the conversation closely enough = to understand what ``share and use automatically'' means. The = `automatically' part of that sentence is important. It turns out that what Ted really wants is a way to load all the elisp = files in a directory without listing them explicitly. The entire = security, package, and downloader discussion (in which I suggested using = el-get) was a side-effect of premature overgeneralization. I hope that helps, *Chad