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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:54:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwr264r6.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2lj0usm8m.fsf@tapoueh.org

On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:45:45 +0100 Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org> wrote: 

DF> What's proposed in this thread is a way for el-get to bootstrap
DF> itself in a user's setup without having to edit the user's init
DF> file.

s/el-get/any Emacs Lisp code/

The only reason I can think why this would not be acceptable is
security.  Otherwise this makes a lot of sense.

For security I would propose checksumming any code in the load-dir and
when new files are added or existing files are changed, query the user
and store a file checksum in an alist.

I'm willing to make this facility a package that users can install.  But
I think it's better to put it in the Emacs core so it's available by
default and without special action from the user beyond enabling a
single variable.  I feel strongly it would enhance Emacs to provide this.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-04 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-01 20:32 user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-03 21:07 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04  9:55   ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-04 17:18     ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-04 18:04       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-04 18:37       ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 19:35         ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-04 19:45           ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 19:54             ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-03-04 20:21               ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 20:25               ` Chad Brown
2011-03-04 20:46                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 19:24                   ` Chad Brown
2011-03-04 20:26               ` Chad Brown
2011-03-04 20:08             ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-04 20:24               ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 21:17                 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-04 21:33                   ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 21:37                     ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-05  3:18                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 19:11                       ` Chad Brown
2011-03-06  7:21                       ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-07 16:24                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-07 17:18                           ` Chad Brown
2011-03-07 17:59                             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 17:36                             ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-08 18:30                               ` Chad Brown
2011-03-07 17:52                           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-07 20:39                             ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-08  2:46                               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-08 10:26                                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 17:14                                   ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-08 18:47                                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 19:23                                       ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-09  2:54                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-09 19:57                                           ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-08 20:59                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-08 21:38                                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09  7:06                                       ` Jan D.
2011-03-09  7:17                                         ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-09 10:01                                           ` Jan Djärv
2011-03-09 15:42                                             ` `custom-file' and init-file [was: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir] Drew Adams
2011-03-09 17:54                                               ` `custom-file' and init-file Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 21:19                                               ` `custom-file' and init-file [was: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir] Evans Winner
2011-03-09 21:39                                                 ` `custom-file' and init-file [was: user-controlled load-pathextension: load-dir] Drew Adams
2011-03-10  2:52                                                 ` `custom-file' and init-file [was: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir] Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 17:29                                             ` user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 18:18                                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 19:33                                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 19:57                                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10  3:20                                                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-10  5:01                                                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10  7:08                                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-10 13:15                                                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-11  2:10                                                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 21:57                                         ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-10  7:08                                           ` Jan Djärv
2011-03-09  6:03                                   ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-09  7:20                                     ` Jan D.
2011-03-09 23:44                                       ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-08  0:47                           ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-08 10:37                             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09  6:26                               ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-09 11:26                                 ` Ted Zlatanov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-08  7:14 Ben Key
2011-03-08  9:58 ` Evans Winner
2011-03-08 18:49   ` PJ Weisberg
     [not found] <AANLkTin1zXJQo2vsju7kpa31Nw568m_eNZS+gJ6g2tQO@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-08 18:49 ` Ben Key
2011-03-08 20:01   ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-08 20:25     ` Chad Brown
2011-03-08 20:38       ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-08 22:40         ` Chad Brown
2011-03-09  9:36           ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-09 11:52             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 22:57     ` Ben Key
2011-03-09  3:28       ` Ben Key
2011-03-09  6:50         ` Ben Key
2011-03-09  7:29           ` Jan D.
2011-03-09 16:00             ` Ben Key
2011-03-09 11:39           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 19:51       ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-09 20:08         ` Ben Key
2011-03-09 20:18         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 20:32           ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-09 20:44             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 11:30             ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-10 14:27               ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-10 17:23                 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-10 18:33                   ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-10 18:56                     ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-10 19:32                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-10 20:30                       ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-10 21:54                         ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-11  8:43                           ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-10 19:36                     ` Jambunathan K
2011-03-11 15:00               ` chad
2011-03-11 17:41                 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-12  5:51                   ` chad
2011-03-12 10:09                     ` Jan Djärv
2011-03-11 18:51                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-16 14:16             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-16 15:43               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-16 20:08                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17  2:13                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-17  3:34                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17  4:42                       ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-16 20:11               ` Evans Winner
2011-03-16 20:23                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10  2:21         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-17  4:22 Ben Key
2011-03-17  6:31 ` Evans Winner
2011-03-17 10:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 20:11   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-17 21:01     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 21:05       ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-17 21:23         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 22:50           ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-18  2:46             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-18 10:56               ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-18 13:07                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-18  2:21       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-19  4:10 Ben Key
2011-03-19 13:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-19 16:07   ` Ben Key
2011-03-19 14:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-20  2:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-20 12:05   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-23 15:32     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-23 20:33       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-24  0:03 Ben Key
2011-03-24 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-26 11:37   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-02 18:35     ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-04  9:54       ` Ted Zlatanov

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