From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GnuTLS for W32 Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:48:22 +0800 Message-ID: <87r4zgynd5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k45alwgb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87fwfyltm1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87boqmlrma.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ty4e9j19.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83obumqa0v.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipktag2e.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwfxtxuz.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87aa64ubg9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83boqkr9bp.fsf@gnu.org> <874nwcu17i.fsf@wanadoo.es> <834nwcr6un.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcosskhc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <831urgr2yr.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4zgsh2w.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y5topmyv.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325659722 6231 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2012 06:48:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:48:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 07:48:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiKeL-0005bX-Dy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:48:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53071 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiKeK-0002a7-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:48:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43751) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiKeH-0002a2-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:48:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiKeG-0007jA-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiKeG-0007j6-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:48:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [155.69.17.56] (port=51711 helo=furball) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiKeF-0001na-DH; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:48:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83y5topmyv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:09:28 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:147252 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: =C3=93scar Fuentes >> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:48:23 +0100 >> >> If, at run time, you can find the elisp packages downloaded by >> package.el, what's the problem with finding a dll on the same directory >> (or a subdirectory of it, if you wish) ? > > Because load-path is used for loading Lisp, but not for loading DLLs. The code in a Lisp package can extract its package directory from the variable `load-file-name'. The Multi-file Packages node of the Lisp manual gives an example of this. I'm not saying we should distribute GnuTLS support via ELPA, only that the Package system is no technical barrier.