From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:58:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mvv5bgoh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <562E7548.0@yandex.ru>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:47:36 +0200
>
> > We are permissive. We just want to be consistent in the stuff we
> > generate.
>
> load-path is a user-level variable. Changing package.el behavior is
> fine, but if we document load-path to only have "directory name"
> elements, some code might decide to rely on it.
We don't advise to rely on that. We also recommend using
expand-file-name, which should tolerate both.
If someone wants to fix default-directory to not use the trailing
slash, I don't object. I just hope we won't have to discuss all the
other variables that hold directory names.
All in all, I feel that this bikeshedding episode should end.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-26 18:58 UTC|newest]
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2015-10-24 13:49 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names Stefan Monnier
2015-10-24 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-24 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-25 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-26 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 9:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-10-24 21:37 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-25 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 13:19 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 13:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-26 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-26 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 18:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-26 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-26 19:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-27 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-27 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-27 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 4:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-10-26 18:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-27 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 0:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-28 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-29 1:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-26 20:02 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 20:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-27 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-27 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 19:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-27 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 7:34 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-28 15:49 ` Davis Herring
2015-10-28 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 20:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-28 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-29 8:24 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-29 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 21:02 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-29 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-29 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 5:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-23 14:14 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-11-23 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 18:19 ` Random832
2015-10-28 22:04 ` Random832
2015-10-29 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-29 13:30 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-10-29 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-29 4:33 ` Random832
2015-10-29 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 16:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-29 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 18:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-30 1:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-30 1:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-30 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-30 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-30 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-30 1:34 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-30 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 1:31 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 17:55 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 19:49 ` Stephen Leake
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