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: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:37:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87sjv6r38q.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299263885 19770 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2011 18:38:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 18:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 19:38:01 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 1PvZt2-0006ss-Bj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:38:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvZt1-0000jn-Vr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35853 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvZsw-0000hb-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:37:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvZsw-0007l1-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from prometheus.naquadah.org ([212.85.154.174]:55752 helo=mx1.naquadah.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvZsv-0007km-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id E57E65C174; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:37:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from DimIMac.local (89-159-58-19.rev.dartybox.com [89.159.58.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BB535C10B; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:37:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by DimIMac.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 9CCD81AE83D5; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:37:47 +0100 (CET) User-Mail-Address: dim@tapoueh.org In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:18:03 -0700") 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:136768 Archived-At: Tom Tromey writes: > package.el does this, more or less. It doesn't just load all files, but > does some version and dependency checks. But, e.g., it is trivial for > el-get to be supplied as a package. This feature is enabled by default > in Emacs 24. Would it be accepted, though? If yes, I'd better go begin those FSF paperwork. Regards, -- dim