From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:25:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83eggg419o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151023135532.11512.53356@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83mvv8wejc.fsf@gnu.org> <86bnboeymw.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83wpuadc9k.fsf@gnu.org> <86d1w1ahsy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <562E2A8A.1030601@yandex.ru> <83wpu9bns4.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3khbhz7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445970434 9644 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2015 18:27:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 19:27:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr8xd-0002ze-0t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:27:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33643 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr8xb-0002ta-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr8xY-0002tN-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr8xV-000187-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:61137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr8xV-00017z-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:26:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWW00G005NUUF00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:25:09 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWW00GA05TXQWA0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:25:09 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192744 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:49:37 -0400 > > >> > Nothing, except that we can point them to the docs and say that they > >> > live dangerously ;-) > [...] > > We are permissive. > > The above two statement are not mutually consistent, IMO. Why should they be? "Hope for the best, plan for the worst." > > We just want to be consistent in the stuff we generate. > > I'm fine with this. But I object to documenting too precisely the form > that should be in load-path and then tell people that if they don't do > that they live dangerously. OK, I won't tell that. (It was a joke, anyway.)