From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:17:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87sjv6r38q.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299274373 13237 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2011 21:32:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dimitri Fontaine Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 22:32:45 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 1Pvcc6-0000Nt-GH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:32:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51039 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvcO9-0001vi-IF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:18:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48178 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvcNr-0001uW-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvcNg-0004wR-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18572) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvcNf-0004vP-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p24LHltA008864 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p24LHjkA012972; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:17:46 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p24LHip6006348; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:17:45 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9A65A37967C; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:17:44 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Dimitri Fontaine's message of "Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:24:13 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.25 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 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:136779 Archived-At: Dimitri> I can see your point about el-get being a package even if not Dimitri> included in ELPA by default, now that package.el is part of Dimitri> Emacs24. That leaves any user of Emacs23 with no solution Dimitri> though. I will consider that at some point I guess, but Dimitri> currently el-get allows you to get package.el in emacs23=C2=A0:) If somebody added the feature you want to Emacs, presumably it would only be in Emacs 24, leaving you in the same situation. Or maybe the proposal is to put it into Emacs 23. But then we might as well just put package.el into Emacs 23. Tom