From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sbaugh@catern.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Managing environments (Python venv, guix environment, etc.) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 04:25:03 -0400 Message-ID: <87a8h7wihs.fsf@earth.catern.com> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469348738 27274 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2016 08:25:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 08:25:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 24 10:25:31 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 1bREj3-0006Fq-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:25:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55200 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bREj2-0001se-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 04:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bREiu-0001rW-AQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 04:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bREiq-0002CA-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 04:25:20 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35202) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bREiq-0002Bz-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 04:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bREip-00062E-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:25:15 +0200 Original-Received: from 71-46-80-67.res.bhn.net ([71.46.80.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:25:15 +0200 Original-Received: from sbaugh by 71-46-80-67.res.bhn.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:25:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71-46-80-67.res.bhn.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6bL52mCfbULWl3OnKuQIcoi5gu4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:206081 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > My main concern with this proposal is avoiding to have to purposefully > modify "every Elisp package that runs processes". If every process > call will pass through the environment dispatcher, Just a note: Ideally, Elisp code would also (somehow) go through the environment dispatcher, and see the exec-path and process-environment of the appropriate environment. There is surely Elisp code makes direct use of exec-path/process-environment and it should behave the same as external processes.