From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Another load path idea Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:39:33 +0100 Organization: LAAS-CNRS Message-ID: <8764o7cri2.fsf@laas.fr> References: <877j9cnoh4.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87oe2hss4d.fsf@laas.fr> <87mzi1jq8j.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87psmobmju.fsf@laas.fr> <87veweeyyk.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <1137944316.15250.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87lkx3n6yi.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138264830 14023 80.91.229.2 (26 Jan 2006 08:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 26 09:40:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F22g1-0008Ey-C7 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:40:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F22in-0001ya-QG for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:43:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F22ih-0001w3-Vj for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:43:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F22if-0001vI-FM for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F22if-0001vD-Bz for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.93.0.15] (helo=laas.laas.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F22gA-0006D9-Ve for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: by laas.laas.fr (8.13.1/8.13.4) with SMTP id k0Q8e1TO011596; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:40:04 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Kevin Ryde X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 7 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pluvi=F4se?= an 214 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu Mail-Followup-To: Kevin Ryde , guile-user@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87lkx3n6yi.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:55:33 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 0.496 () MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at CNRS-LAAS X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:5095 Archived-At: Hi, Kevin Ryde writes: > Andy Wingo writes: >> >> A question though. What is the problem which is being solved here? > > That's escaped me too. > > (I have a feeling the present "site" dir is modelled on emacs, I > haven't been able to follow why it's not enough ...) Roughly, the point is that some packages may want to install elsewhere, not in `site'. Therefore, the _default_ value of `%load-path' needs to be configurable. Typically, a package that installs to `/opt/foo' may want to tell Guile to add this directory to its default `%load-path'. Then, for a summary of the important stages of this everlasting discussion, you may want to look at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2006-01/msg00064.html . ;-) Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user