Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> > Does anyone know why we skip lisp/term in update-subdirs?
>> >> Because files in lisp/term are always loaded with the term/ prefix.
>> > Thanks.  But why is that a good idea?
>> It reduces the length of load-path and increases our namespace?
> But this can be said about any other subdirectory of lisp/, can't it?

Yes, it can.  Simply the other ones have counter-balancing reasons
(mostly the fact that the other files usually come from random places
and just expect to be found directly in load-path.  E.g. many of the
files started in emacs/lisp before being moved to a subdirectory).

But as can be seen with CEDET, the case of lisp/term is not
inherently unique.


        Stefan