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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: load-path contains directories or directory names?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:01:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lhatfzub.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h9lirqr1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:25:06 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
>> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 23:26:54 -0500
>> 
>> Here `dir' is taken from load-path, or a similar user-provided path. The
>> doc string for `load-path' says it consists of "directory names". In
>> emacs -Q, `load-path' indeed has no elements that end in '/'.
>> 
>> However, after (package-initialize), `load-path' had elements that end
>> in '/'. This comes from package-autoload-ensure-default-file in
>> package.el, which adds lines like this to each package's autoload:
>> 
>> "(add-to-list 'load-path (or (file-name-directory #$) (car load-path)))\n"
>> 
>> Is this a bug, or should code that uses `load-path' tolerate this?
>
> It's a bug, patches are welcome to fix it.

Pushed in 4d3a595d8d3e6a111399e9f1c7dd3c3c30184e61

-- 
-- Stephe



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-23 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-23  4:26 load-path contains directories or directory names? Stephen Leake
2015-10-23  7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-23 14:01   ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2015-10-23 22:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-24  1:00   ` John Wiegley
2015-10-24 21:46     ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-24 22:48       ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-25 18:39       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-25 19:02         ` John Wiegley
2015-10-25 19:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-25 19:12             ` John Wiegley
2015-10-25 21:58               ` Drew Adams
2015-10-26 13:27               ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 13:46         ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 16:29           ` Eli Zaretskii

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