From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan.glasser.camp@gmail.com>,
Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@gmail.com>,
notmuch mailing list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: emacs: Handling external dependencies
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:43:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2obj034gr.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pq3h56d5.fsf@betacantrips.com>
On Wed, Nov 14 2012, Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan.glasser.camp@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
The scope of the load-path change is for just this one require -- if
header-button required some other modules, the fallback-libs version
should be preferred (in case exists) over loading elsewehere in this case
header-button is loaded from fallback-libs.
But, maybe we should be more spesific there and use something like:
(let ((dir (expand-file-name
"notmuch-deps"
(file-name-directory (or load-file-name buffer-file-name)))))
(unless (require 'header-button (concat dir "/header-button.elc") t)
(require 'header-button (concat dir "/header-button.el") nil)))
(if we ever agree to do either kind of loading...)
> Ethan
Tomi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-14 9:43 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
2012-11-14 9:43 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
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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