From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:03:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831vlut4sy.fsf@gnu.org> <83ws3mrm6f.fsf@gnu.org> <83r5ttsmq0.fsf@gnu.org> <87eipty7ex.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253999030 6915 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2009 21:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 23:03:42 2009 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 4.50) id 1MreQf-0000Ac-Fj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:03:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52306 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MreQe-0005PI-Vu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:03:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MreQI-0005Ia-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MreQD-0005Gd-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46096 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MreQC-0005GO-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:16357 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MreQB-0005Lu-2b; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:03:11 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnQFAJ8evkpFpYq6/2dsb2JhbACBUNJEhB4Fh30 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,457,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="46654226" Original-Received: from 69-165-138-186.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.138.186]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 26 Sep 2009 17:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 16C4E80B1; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:03:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87eipty7ex.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:53:10 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115673 Archived-At: >>> Let me put it another way: why would it be a good idea to put lisp/term >>> in update-subdirs? >> To avoid a special case that someone could trip on. Every other >> subdirectory gets subdirs.el created in it, but term does not. > The CEDET subdirectories will also lack subdirs.el. In fact, you agreed > to it yourself, as a solution to the 8+3 filename restriction for CEDET, > remember? BTW, if the Org people want to use a similar trick, I'd be happy to add `org' to the list of exceptions that aren't added to load-path (so all the files lisp/org/org-foo.el can be renamed lisp/org/foo.el and then loaded via (require 'org/foo)). Stefan