From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Updating Elisp files while Emacs is running Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:48:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83wpp5c8er.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457974177 20719 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2016 16:49:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:49:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 14 17:49:33 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1afVgS-0003sZ-4c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:49:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afVgR-0002RN-Cd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afVgB-0002QT-IC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afVg8-0003T7-Be for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afVg8-0003T3-8U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2488 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1afVg7-0005e5-7p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:49:12 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:41:17 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109571 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:41:17 +0000 > > Could the Elisp file directories get names that don't include the > version number (maybe hidden behind a configure option)? Is it possible to > install system-wide ELPA packages into directories that don't contain > version numbers? Or is there another way, e.g. using a signal to > reinitialize the load-path and the package system? I'm aware these > suggestions would still cause issues if e.g. Elisp files get moved around > or the byte code format changes, but that seems to be comparatively rare. The (unversioned) directory that Emacs provides for these purposes is site-lisp.