From: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan.glasser.camp@gmail.com>
To: Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@gmail.com>,
notmuch mailing list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: emacs: Handling external dependencies
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:19:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq3h56d5.fsf@betacantrips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+y5ggiGrAcicQLeskaXFoxYyJQVVXZ1VRX=XS8zPFR9_mBFxA@mail.gmail.com>
Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@gmail.com> writes:
> 4) distribute the dependency with the rest of notmuch (in a separate
> "fallback-libs/" directory) and load it only when requiring the
> library with the standard load-path does not work. Jonas Bernoulli
> gave me a way to do that:
>
> ,----
> | (or (require 'THE-LIB nil t)
> | (let ((load-path
> | (cons (expand-file-name
> | "fallback-libs"
> | (file-name-directory (or load-file-name buffer-file-name)))
> | load-path)))
> | (require 'THE-LIB)))
> `----
>
> What do you think?
Why not just append it to the *end* of load-path? Then it won't shadow
anything.
Ethan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-14 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-10 15:58 emacs: Handling external dependencies Damien Cassou
2012-11-14 1:19 ` Ethan Glasser-Camp [this message]
2012-11-14 9:43 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-11-14 1:32 ` Adam Wolfe Gordon
2012-11-14 9:48 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-11-15 14:59 ` Damien Cassou
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