From: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Adding to the end of the load path
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:38:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+U71=NPM=4DqcOcfp0Rv9uHvV8zGDYiuzgcWbUZ1M162+8rfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4nts7lq.fsf@tines.lan>
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
> Hi Noah,
>
Hello,
> In general, I think the idea of requiring people to write scheme code to
> manipulate %load-path (and other settings) is a fine approach. Maybe
> you're right that this is better than adding a bunch of new environment
> variables.
> However, neither init.scm nor ~/.guile is sufficient for this job.
> init.scm is site-wide, and generally only editable by root, and ~/.guile
> is only run by interactive REPL sessions. So to do as you suggest, we'd
> need to add another user-specific file that is read when initializing
> guile, even for non-interactive sessions.
>
Ah, I didn't realize that was an issue. I was modeling this on what Emacs
does, but it doesn't run in batch mode very much. Three configuration files
with different meanings seems like a lot, but there's no other way that
preserves backwards compatibility. Maybe we could use the $XDG_CONFIG
directory for it (not that I like their default value).
> Also, note that this still doesn't solve our immediate problem regarding
> Guildhall and SRFIs in a backward-compatible way, so we still need to
> support the "..." marker for the next 7-8 years, unless someone has a
> better suggestion.
>
I see your point, but leaving it like this doesn't fix anything that isn't
already broken; is that right? If so, I think we could justify saying that
people need to upgrade to get the new behavior, especially if the
complexity of supporting old versions is high.
Noah
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-16 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-05 3:18 Adding to the end of the load path Ian Price
2012-11-08 1:03 ` Andreas Rottmann
2012-11-11 7:50 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-11 19:02 ` Andreas Rottmann
2012-11-11 21:51 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-12 16:35 ` Bruce Korb
2012-11-13 21:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-15 22:06 ` Andreas Rottmann
2012-11-15 22:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-15 22:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-15 23:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-16 0:10 ` Noah Lavine
2012-11-16 14:00 ` Noah Lavine
2012-11-16 18:06 ` Bruce Korb
2012-11-16 18:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-16 21:38 ` Noah Lavine [this message]
2012-11-28 23:12 ` [PATCH] Add parse-path-with-ellipsis, and use it for GUILE_LOAD_PATH et al Mark H Weaver
2012-11-28 23:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-29 3:04 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-29 10:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
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