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 18:24:59 +0200 Message-ID: <83wpu9bns4.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445876742 17351 80.91.229.3 (26 Oct 2015 16:25:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:25:42 +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 17:25:34 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 1ZqkaO-0007PP-KM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:25:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqkaO-0004fR-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqkZr-0004Zw-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqkZl-0008QW-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:24:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:45546) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqkZk-0008Q1-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:24:49 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWU00B005KSWM00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:24:47 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWU00BT95LBOTA0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:24:47 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <562E2A8A.1030601@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:192665 Archived-At: > Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:28:42 +0200 > > On 10/26/2015 03:19 PM, Stephen Leake wrote: > > > Added "Use `directory-file-name' when adding items to this path." > > Do you expect any code on Emacs to rely on this? Will it make a difference? IMO, code shouldn't rely on that. The modified documentation advises to use expand-file-name, in which case both forms will work. > What's going to happen to existing user configurations which use the > "other" name (with trailing slash)? Nothing, except that we can point them to the docs and say that they live dangerously ;-)