From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Managing environments (Python venv, guix environment, etc.) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 17:28:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83shuzt8iz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y453sy0n.fsf@earth.catern.com> <87r3arripr.fsf@earth.catern.com> <874m7jygot.fsf@earth.catern.com> <83oa5ox21u.fsf@gnu.org> <123d2ae9-b523-5d5b-3bf8-c6e4462270b8@yandex.ru> <87a8h7wihs.fsf@earth.catern.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469370557 7040 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2016 14:29:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:29:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: sbaugh@catern.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 24 16:29:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1bRKP5-00042J-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:29:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56212 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRKP5-0001Xw-0z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58581) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRKON-0001UU-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRKOI-0000ec-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:28:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37117) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRKOI-0000eL-KO; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3396 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bRKOF-00071c-Uv; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:28:24 -0400 In-reply-to: <87a8h7wihs.fsf@earth.catern.com> (sbaugh@catern.com) 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: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206084 Archived-At: > From: sbaugh@catern.com > Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 04:25:03 -0400 > > Ideally, Elisp code would also (somehow) go through the environment > dispatcher, and see the exec-path and process-environment of the > appropriate environment. I don't see why this would be needed. Emacs can load Lisp packages and run programs even if they are not on load-path/exec-path. Why do we need to tweak these lists which are so central to Emacs core?