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: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:58:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83mvv5bgoh.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> <562E7548.0@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445885935 8392 80.91.229.3 (26 Oct 2015 18:58:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:58:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 26 19:58:45 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 1ZqmyY-0003ws-P7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:58:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54662 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqmyY-0000pw-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:58:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60668) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqmyH-0000ph-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:58:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqmyC-000543-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:57610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqmyB-00053v-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWU00500CFDS600@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:58:10 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWU005BPCOXPC30@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:58:10 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <562E7548.0@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:192680 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:47:36 +0200 > > > We are permissive. We just want to be consistent in the stuff we > > generate. > > load-path is a user-level variable. Changing package.el behavior is > fine, but if we document load-path to only have "directory name" > elements, some code might decide to rely on it. We don't advise to rely on that. We also recommend using expand-file-name, which should tolerate both. If someone wants to fix default-directory to not use the trailing slash, I don't object. I just hope we won't have to discuss all the other variables that hold directory names. All in all, I feel that this bikeshedding episode should end.