From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BBDB v3 approaching release Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 08:14:50 -0600 Message-ID: <87ehcnqlr9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <20899.5836.285028.24953@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87obbvwgw6.fsf@sbs.ch> <20901.8264.9162.330645@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20902.12476.291747.710823@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20902.64600.858912.770771@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <878v2wdhaz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20903.13593.858294.636072@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <877gigcrc5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8738t4cpy2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83ppw849bq.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5avbyec.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370009706 28049 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2013 14:15:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 14:15:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , winkler@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 31 16:15:06 2013 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 1UiQ6i-0000F6-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 16:15:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52892 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiQ6i-00034a-0F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 10:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiQ6Z-0002wU-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 10:14:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiQ6Y-0003uu-A6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 10:14:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50186) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiQ6Y-0003uk-2o; Fri, 31 May 2013 10:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r4VEEq6S023962 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 31 May 2013 10:14:52 -0400 Original-Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-72.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.72]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r4VEEo4d003839 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 31 May 2013 10:14:51 -0400 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87y5avbyec.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Fri, 31 May 2013 12:50:51 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.12 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159951 Archived-At: >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull writes: Stephen> Failing that (ie, for the foreseeable future), I think what Stephen> ELPA should do is provide a suite of functions for finding Stephen> package resources such as elisp (installed), the source tree, Stephen> graphics and other multimedia, helper files for external apps Stephen> (eg, the bbdb-print TeX style files), helper executables, and Stephen> so on. It does already. See (info "(elisp) Multi-file Packages"): If the multi-file package contains auxiliary data files (such as images), the package's Lisp code can refer to these files via the variable `load-file-name' (*note Loading::). Here is an example: (defconst superfrobnicator-base (file-name-directory load-file-name)) (defun superfrobnicator-fetch-image (file) (expand-file-name file superfrobnicator-base)) Tom