From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Price Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Adding to the end of the load path Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 03:18:59 +0000 Message-ID: <87sj8o20v0.fsf@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352085561 19590 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2012 03:19:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 03:19:21 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 05 04:19:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TVDDl-0007wz-DA for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:19:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53212 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVDDc-0002ge-Iq for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:19:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51734) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVDDX-0002gX-V0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:19:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVDDW-0007TP-Nj for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:19:15 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52252) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVDDW-0007Ru-DF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:19:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TVDDc-0007pm-Ak for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:19:20 +0100 Original-Received: from host81-159-31-213.range81-159.btcentralplus.com ([81.159.31.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:19:20 +0100 Original-Received: from ianprice90 by host81-159-31-213.range81-159.btcentralplus.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:19:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-159-31-213.range81-159.btcentralplus.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LQlvu5t91RRypiiu84DOYOgJdPg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:15088 Archived-At: Hi guilers, On the #guile IRC channel, Mark Weaver has stressed to me that he thinks it would be a good idea for us to be able to add paths to the end of the load path, since it would allow us to, for example, prefer a built-in guile implementation over a guildhall provided one, when this exists. Right now, for the srfi[0] and guile-lib, I have handled this by not adding files to the package where they have been adopted by guile (e.g. statprof). Andreas Rottmann suggested something similar in February[1]. I don't have any concrete proposals better than what Andreas has suggested, but I felt I should make this post to the list, lest Mark and I forget. 0. My apologies to whomever it was who reported breakage in the srfi package (and sorry that I've forgotten your name). I have been fixing it, but my current version still has some issues. I promise I will post a guildhall update to here, and guile-user sometime in the next week or two. 1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2012-02/msg00038.html -- Ian Price -- shift-reset.com "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"