From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dimitri Fontaine Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:38:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: <55772486-9439-4587-B8BD-2015AC9EE051@mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299616703 20915 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2011 20:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 20:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Chad Brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 21:38:18 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px3fc-0003io-3G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:38:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50156 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px3fb-0006aS-Id for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:38:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45975 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px3fX-0006aI-0l for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px3fV-0002i3-Rz for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:38:10 -0500 Original-Received: from prometheus.naquadah.org ([212.85.154.174]:39674 helo=mx1.naquadah.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px3fV-0002gu-NJ for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:38:09 -0500 Original-Received: by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id 6D1D05C0F3; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:38:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from DimIMac.local (89-159-58-5.rev.dartybox.com [89.159.58.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 65AA15C0E9; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:38:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by DimIMac.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id E06231B2E1D1; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:38:04 +0100 (CET) User-Mail-Address: dim@tapoueh.org In-Reply-To: <55772486-9439-4587-B8BD-2015AC9EE051@mit.edu> (Chad Brown's message of "Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:25:48 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 212.85.154.174 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:136917 Archived-At: Chad Brown writes: > ``in emacs: M-x install-by-url RET '' > > and have emacs download the package, unpack it, describe it to the user, and > offer to activate it (adding any necessary code to .emacs, probably via a > custom-style equivalent). You are pretty much describing how el-get already works. > This could also ask any required questions up > front. This seems easier (for the user) and more capable (for the > developer). Why the opposition? Emacs already contains facilities that > modify the user's startup files for them, and has for decades. I hate it when any other software edit my user files, that's the whole point of `user-load-dir'. Regards, -- dim