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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>,
	Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: persistent storage for Emacs packages
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:58:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwql67ppc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC2C439E-52CD-473E-8FD6-32D76314AAA5@swipnet.se> ("Jan Djärv"'s message of "Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:07:01 +0200")

> The freedesktop standards tend to come and go and change quite a bit.
> Are we contemplating this "standard" for non-freedesktop systems also?

We could work our way slowly in that direction.

Currently ~/.emacs.d is pretty messy, so it might be good to try and
"clean it up", and along the way, we could try and integrate some of
XDG's suggestions.  Not sure how much of XDG would be useful, tho.

E.g. we could start with a ~/.emacs.d/cache/ directory where all the
files that can be reconstructed would go.  Tho there aren't many such
files, IIRC.

But w.r.t "config vs data" this distinction is far from clear.

Still, we have the problem with ~/.emacs.d that many users put their
elisp packages in there and then add it to their load-path.  I think
we should at least try and detect this usage and emit a warning (but
we shouldn't just say "don't do that", so we need to agree on
a recommendation of where to put those packages).


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-21 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-18 16:45 persistent storage for Emacs packages Tyler Smith
2013-10-18 17:44 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-18 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 22:37   ` Josh
2013-10-18 22:49     ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-10-18 23:00       ` Josh
     [not found]       ` <18713_1382137341_5261BDFD_18713_15_2_da88b78b76204dbcbbf9b5a4acbe6a0c@EXHUB2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-19  1:37         ` Tyler Smith
     [not found] ` <19473_1382126090_5261920A_19473_52_3_0b1fb8bede554cb79d9303697d2056a2@EXHUB2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-18 20:01   ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-19  1:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 22:45 ` Karl Fogel
2013-10-18 22:48   ` Nic Ferrier
2013-11-21 16:13     ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-22 13:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-25 13:30         ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-25 16:58           ` Nic Ferrier
2013-11-25 19:21             ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-20 19:19 ` Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: " Thomas Koch
2013-10-20 23:16   ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-21  5:07     ` Jan Djärv
2013-10-21  6:32       ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-21  7:47         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-10-21  9:35         ` Jan Djärv
2013-10-21 12:58       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-10-21 13:31         ` John Yates
2013-10-21 15:25           ` Barry Fishman
     [not found]       ` <17329_1382360340_52652514_17329_164_1_1c38477173ab4b6cb80a8c50bd6dd0e9@EXHUB2010-1.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-21 13:19         ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-21 18:09           ` Josh
     [not found]           ` <20874_1382379012_52656E04_20874_7_7_6906997aba2b4fc2b717f1f695c0e3df@EXHUB2010-2.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-21 18:24             ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-21 19:37               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-21 20:54                 ` Josh
2013-10-21 21:00                   ` Glenn Morris

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