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 10:18:03 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87sjv6r38q.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299259099 23502 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2011 17:18:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:18:19 +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 18:18:15 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 1PvYdr-00023k-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:18:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59498 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvYdq-0004UT-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:18:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52615 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvYdl-0004UL-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:18:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvYdj-000513-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:18:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:64828) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvYdj-00050Z-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p24HI6WD018590 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p24HI6Rv017429; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:18:06 -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 p24HI5SG015636; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:18:05 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id D8CD337967C; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:18:04 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Julien Danjou's message of "Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:55:00 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 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:136765 Archived-At: Julien> Especially if Emacs was able to build and load an autoload file for the Julien> files placed in that directory. The user would have *nothing* to do to Julien> use a new feature. Not even touching its `user-init-file'. 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. Tom