From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:35:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87sjv6r38q.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299267333 6828 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2011 19:35:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:35:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dimitri Fontaine Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 20:35:27 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 1Pvamc-0005Rl-OY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:35:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pvamc-0006BN-3V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:35:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42390 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvamX-0006BI-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:35:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvamV-0002v3-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:6846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvamV-0002ux-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p24JZIwG029113 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:35:18 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p24JZH6H012154; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:35:17 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p24JZGaM029054; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:35:16 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id E3F9337967C; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:35:15 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Dimitri Fontaine's message of "Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:37:47 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.25 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 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:136769 Archived-At: Tom> package.el does this, more or less. It doesn't just load all files, but Tom> does some version and dependency checks. But, e.g., it is trivial for Tom> el-get to be supplied as a package. This feature is enabled by default Tom> in Emacs 24. Dimitri> Would it be accepted, though? If yes, I'd better go begin those FSF Dimitri> paperwork. Suppose Emacs did add a "load all the files in a directory" feature. You would tell your users "download this and install it here". Or you would supply some elisp on a web page for them to eval, and this elisp would do the downloading. Well, you can do the exact same things with a package. You don't need it to be in elpa.gnu.org. Tom