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 18:36:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87ei6mz24h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <20110306072147.GA11067@event-horizon.homenet> <871v2i525h.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299605783 20065 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2011 17:36:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chad Brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 18:36:17 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 1Px0pV-0001Tk-63 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:36:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px0pU-0001ld-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:36:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52715 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px0pQ-0001lM-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:36:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px0pO-0007sd-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: from prometheus.naquadah.org ([212.85.154.174]:58865 helo=mx1.naquadah.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px0pO-0007rk-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:36:10 -0500 Original-Received: by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id 3DBDB5C0F4; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:36:07 +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 490955C0F0; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:36:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by DimIMac.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id C18E21B29D6A; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:36:01 +0100 (CET) User-Mail-Address: dim@tapoueh.org In-Reply-To: (Chad Brown's message of "Mon, 7 Mar 2011 09:18:44 -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:136893 Archived-At: Chad Brown writes: > Put another another way, I think that the > snippet of code that can't be a package or in site-lisp but that > several users want to share and use automatically is really unlikely > to exist. Ever heard about emacswiki? What do you think the chances are that authors of snippets and scripts shared over at emacswiki get to package them to ELPA? My take is very very very low, low enough that I wrote el-get just so that I don't have to take the chance. Regards, -- dim