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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 43627-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Subject: bug#43627: [PATCH core-updates v2 1/2] guix: Add an append-separator? field to the <search-path-specification> record.
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 10:24:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eee1zdni.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8el27o5.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sat, 10 Apr 2021 22:42:18 +0200")

Hi!

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> This new field allows to specify in a search-path-specification that a
>> trailing separator should be added to the computed value of the environment
>> variable.  A trailing separator sometimes has the meaning that the usual
>> builtin locations should be looked up as well as the ones explicitly
>> specified.
>>
>> One use case is to specify the Emacs library paths using EMACSLOADPATH.  This
>> allows to not embed the Emacs version in its search path specification, which
>> has been shown to cause issues when upgrading a profile or when defining
>> variant Emacs packages of different versions.
>
> Got it now.  :-)
>
> Leo.s patch series seems to be addressing the same issue:
>
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47661
>
> Should we hold on until we.ve reviewed and acted upon #47661?  Or does
> it have known uses apart from Emacs?

The above as now been merged, obsoleting this series.  Closing!

Thanks,

Maxim




  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-20 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-26  6:11 [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates]: Add a 'append-separator?' field to the <search-path-specification> record Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-26  6:14 ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates 1/3] guix: Add an append-separator? " Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-26  6:14   ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates 2/3] gnu: emacs: Use the new append-separator? option to define its search path Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-26  6:14   ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates 3/3] Revert "emacs-build-system: Ensure the core libraries appear last in the load path." Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-27 19:01 ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates]: Add a 'append-separator?' field to the <search-path-specification> record Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-03 21:22   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-02 13:59     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-08  5:49       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-03-30 15:51 ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates v2 1/2] guix: Add an append-separator? " Maxim Cournoyer
2021-03-30 15:51   ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates v2 2/2] gnu: emacs: Use the new append-separator? option to define its search path Maxim Cournoyer
2021-04-10 20:42   ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates v2 1/2] guix: Add an append-separator? field to the <search-path-specification> record Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-20 14:24     ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2021-03-30 18:41 ` [bug#43627] [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Wrap EMACSLOADPATH Leo Prikler

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