From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 21704@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21704: 25.0.50; Package (package.el) doc should mention effects on `load-path'
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:24:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489dac34-2cb6-416d-9ef2-301884dd31d8@default> (raw)
Apparently (at least from searching package.el and (emacs) `Packages'
and its subnodes), nowhere do we tell users the effect of using the
package system on `load-path'. (Variable `load-path' is mentioned in a
couple of doc strings, but only for "internal-only" functions.)
There is this comment in the Commentary of `package.el':
;; At activation time we will set up the load-path and the info path,
;; and we will load the package's autoloads. If a package's
;; dependencies are not available, we will not activate that package.
I think it is important (helpful) to explicitly make the connection for
users between `load-path' and the package system. Please consider
making it clear. Even just a statement such as the one in that comment
would help.
Here is one demonstration of the confusion that might be avoided if such
information were made more readily available:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-10/msg00331.html
In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2015-10-06
Bzr revision: a4a98a1b2568793ead43e824ecf227768759df12
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk
--enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3'
LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''
next reply other threads:[~2015-10-18 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-18 14:24 Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-30 22:24 ` bug#21704: 25.0.50; Package (package.el) doc should mention effects on `load-path' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-01 1:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-06-27 4:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-27 5:40 ` Drew Adams
2016-06-27 12:30 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-27 13:56 ` Drew Adams
2016-06-27 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-28 3:18 ` Noam Postavsky
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