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Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?
From: |
Federico Beffa |
Subject: |
Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"? |
Date: |
Fri, 20 May 2016 08:53:27 +0200 |
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès (2016-05-17 00:15 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
[...]
>>> Federico suggests above that having “guix.d” makes it clear that a
>>> non-Guix-installed Emacs on a foreign distro may not be able to use
>>> those packages.
>>
>> I don't see how this makes it more clear. Of course a
>> non-Guix-installed Emacs knows nothing about packages installed in a
>> Guix profile. As for me, "~/.guix-profile" is already clear enough, and
>> there is no reason to add another "guix"-containing name part to the
>> file hierarchy.
>
> I see, I get your point, and I think I concur.
>
> Federico: is there anything we’re missing from your argument?
Given that the first point that I made appears to have been ignored, I
would think so.
Let me try to explain it once more:
There are packages which do have sub-directories containing only non
elisp files (note 1) and which therefore should not be included in
Emacs's load-path. If you remove guix.d as you are suggesting, you can
end up with a directory layout as follows:
package-NOT-installed-with-emacs-build-system-a.el
package-NOT-installed-with-emacs-build-system-a/
package-NOT-installed-with-emacs-build-system-b.el
package-installed-with-emacs-build-system-c/
package-installed-with-emacs-build-system-d/
How can you tell which sub-directory to include in Emacs's load-path
without having to scan all of them or relying on heuristics?
Differently from this with the guix.d directory it is very clear:
package-NOT-installed-with-emacs-build-system-a.el
package-NOT-installed-with-emacs-build-system-a/
package-NOT-installed-with-emacs-build-system-b
guix.d/package-installed-with-emacs-build-system-c/
guix.d/package-installed-with-emacs-build-system-d/
you only include '.' (site-lisp) and one level below guix.d.
So, removing guix.d could result in additional directories being
included in Emacs's load-path, or could require a more sophisticated
heuristic strategy to decide which sub-directory to include. These are
not catastrophic things, but in my opinion plain bad.
The proposed change is a change for the sake of changing things: it does
not provide any tangible technical improvement. On the contrary, beside
the above, it will break existing installations where people have the
current Emacs package installed and will install a new package without
updating Emacs itself.
Fede
(note 1): If you want an example look at emacs-slime. Because I
prepared that package, I decided to use the emacs-build-system and so
the extra sub-directory doesn't reside directly under site-lisp. But it
is likely that there are other similar packages and somebody else may
prefer to install it with a build system other than the
emacs-build-system (using a provided Makefile).
- Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Alex Kost, 2016/05/08
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Federico Beffa, 2016/05/08
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Alex Kost, 2016/05/08
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Federico Beffa, 2016/05/08
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Federico Beffa, 2016/05/09
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Alex Kost, 2016/05/09
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/05/16
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Alex Kost, 2016/05/17
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/05/19
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?,
Federico Beffa <=
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Alex Kost, 2016/05/20
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Federico Beffa, 2016/05/21
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Alex Kost, 2016/05/21
- Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/05/22
Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/05/08