From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, gnu-emacs@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Where should dynamic modules be installed?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:04:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imoexmsq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3085e6a-53aa-1b62-38bf-e2546eec0ce3@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:31:30 -0700)
> > Also, wouldn't it be cleaner if Emacs had a separate variable (analog to
> > image-load-path, custom-theme-load-path, etc.) for loading of dynamic
> > modules, instead of reusing load-path?
>
> Emacs should do that, yes. How about if we use a variable named
> 'module-directory' for that? It would work like exec-directory, except
> for modules.
I think a single directory would be too restrictive, we should have a
path. And we should use load-path as fallback, because we used that
for several releases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-24 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-21 10:45 Where should dynamic modules be installed? Ulrich Mueller
2019-10-21 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 14:36 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-10-24 0:31 ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-24 12:02 ` Andy Moreton
2019-10-24 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-24 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-24 15:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
[not found] <mailman.96.1571932821.13349.emacs-devel@gnu.org>
2019-10-24 16:24 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-10-24 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
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