From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:54:21 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fwr264r6.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87sjv6r38q.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299268499 13444 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2011 19:54:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:54:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 20:54:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvb5R-0007Pu-CQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:54:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44359 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pvb5R-0005Od-0E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:54:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36422 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pvb5D-0005In-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvb5C-0006a1-B6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:54:39 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50539) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvb5C-0006Zu-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:54:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvb5A-0007HP-Ue for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:54:36 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:54:36 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:54:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g65C8KTGF8N0s6mjfNaJV98X6cg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136771 Archived-At: On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:45:45 +0100 Dimitri Fontaine 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