Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir

[Tom Tromey]

Julien> Especially if Emacs was able to build and load an autoload file for the
Julien> files placed in that directory. The user would have *nothing* to do to
Julien> use a new feature. Not even touching its `user-init-file'.

package.el does this, more or less.  It doesn't just load all files, but
does some version and dependency checks.  But, e.g., it is trivial for
el-get to be supplied as a package.  This feature is enabled by default
in Emacs 24.

Tom