From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:52:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ei6mz24h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <20110306072147.GA11067@event-horizon.homenet> <871v2i525h.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299520360 30721 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2011 17:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 18:52:36 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 1Pwebg-0000KN-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:52:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pwebf-0005wN-NE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:52:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49890 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwebY-0005vS-6E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwebX-0001a6-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:52:23 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:35734 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwebX-0001Zy-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:52:23 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAA6qdE3O+LEt/2dsb2JhbACmTXW+NIViBIUcj3E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,278,1297054800"; d="scan'208";a="94884484" Original-Received: from 206-248-177-45.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.177.45]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 07 Mar 2011 12:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D06AC660D6; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:52:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <871v2i525h.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:24:58 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:136840 Archived-At: > They are not packages, they are snippets of code. ELPA requires far > more structure and many more steps. For what I'm proposing, a lot less > work is required (just a y/n prompt the first time a snippet is found to > ensure it's not placed there maliciously). There's no reason why package.el can't accept any random elisp file. Stefan