From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:32:09 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8762r9svie.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <877hbuq9ol.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300894885 13253 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2011 15:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:41:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 16:41:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2QBV-0001oZ-Dj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:41:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59683 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2QBU-0004Ye-UH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:41:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41737 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2QAQ-00041H-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2QAP-00075V-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54407) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2QAP-00075N-Dr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2QAJ-0000uM-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:40:07 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:40:07 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:40:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gKPPOpsf/WZfaz5FtJpAbLuQd0I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137579 Archived-At: On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:05:14 -0500 Ted Zlatanov wrote: TZ> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:58:15 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> 1. Each of the defcustom items now has a require property. >>> The main benefit of this is that a user may now simply place >>> load-dir.el in their load path, use M-x load-library to load >>> 'load-dir' and then do a M-x customize-group to customize the >>> 'load-dir' group, customize load-dirs, and restart Emacs. There is >>> no need to also manually edit their .emacs file to add a '(require >>> 'load-dir)' in order to actually cause Emacs to load load-dir.el. SM> If it's meant as an ELPA package, this is unneeded, since just SM> installing the package can cause installation of some autoloads. SM> This is important because the use of :require in defcustoms is generally SM> discouraged (it places the feature name (i.e. the file name) into the SM> user's custom-file, so if the feature gets moved to another file or of SM> the file gets renamed, previous cutomizations tend to signals errors SM> about not finding the old file name). TZ> OK, I've taken those requires out of my version. Is it possible to put TZ> it in the ELPA branch? Do you want me to post the version with those changes or can I just commit it to the ELPA branch? Thanks Ted