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 21:21:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87sjv6r38q.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwr264r6.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299270106 22527 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2011 20:21:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 20:21:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 21:21:42 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 1PvbVO-0004ak-50 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:21:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55139 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvbVN-0006JE-MJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:21:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59266 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvbVG-0006HH-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvbVE-0003id-Sq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:21:34 -0500 Original-Received: from prometheus.naquadah.org ([212.85.154.174]:34687 helo=mx1.naquadah.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvbVE-0003i2-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:21:32 -0500 Original-Received: by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id 95C9F5C143; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:21:30 +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 3881B5C135; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:21:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by DimIMac.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id CD05D1AE9BEF; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:21:23 +0100 (CET) User-Mail-Address: dim@tapoueh.org In-Reply-To: <87fwr264r6.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:54:21 -0600") 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:136773 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > The only reason I can think why this would not be acceptable is > security. Otherwise this makes a lot of sense. My answer there would be to just add to load-path, but have no automatic mechanism to load the files in there or register the autoloads. Having a known place where to download el-get.el and being able to tell user to just (require 'el-get) is all I want here. Regards, -- dim