From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:41:44 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20041025224144.GA19336@fencepost> References: <20041020105027.GA17283@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098744168 23783 80.91.229.6 (25 Oct 2004 22:42:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:42:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 26 00:42:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CMDY4-0003PZ-00 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:42:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CMDfj-0005xz-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CMDfJ-0005pJ-7q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CMDfH-0005ou-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CMDfH-0005ok-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CMDXX-0001B5-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CMDX6-00057i-8G; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:41:44 -0400 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28948 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28948 On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:46:19PM +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > > There is also the problem if getting users to modify their load-path's > > to accommodate the new Gnus layout. > > ... but this is a more serious problem. Or does Emacs look into > sub-directories of load-path these days? > > Of course, one could do some load-path trickery in gnus.el -- mangle > load-path when loading that file to reflect the new layout. Which may > be slightly naughty. (This is for Gnus distributed separately only; > not in Emacs, of course.) The install directory layout need not mirror the source layout. Why not just _install_ things as gnus has always done -- into one directory? [AFAIK, to get subdir loading to work you appropriate "subdirs.el" files in place; Gnus could have one in the source tree to accomodate loading from there.] -Miles -- "Though they may have different meanings, the cries of 'Yeeeee-haw!' and 'Allahu akbar!' are, in spirit, not actually all that different."