From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BBDB v3 approaching release Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 03:30:55 +0900 Message-ID: <87r4gnatnk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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> <87ehcnqlr9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370025083 6152 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2013 18:31:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 18:31:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , winkler@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 31 20:31:23 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 1UiU6k-00064f-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 20:31:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40955 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiU6k-0007Y9-AC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 14:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37049) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiU6h-0007WN-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 14:31:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiU6g-0004nf-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 14:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:41911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiU6c-0004jt-6d; Fri, 31 May 2013 14:31:14 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6F297096F; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 03:30:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E121D1A298C; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 03:30:55 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87ehcnqlr9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:159957 Archived-At: Tom Tromey writes: > >>>>> "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[...]. > > It does already. See [load-file-name]. That assumes that everything is placed in a particular directory, or perhaps in a fixed relative location to that directory. What I have in mind is something that supports more complex (and presumably prettier) package organizations, so that you can do (locate-data-file 'my-package "sjt-face.png") and things like that without assuming that images live in the same directory as the Lisp code.