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

[Dimitri Fontaine]

Chad Brown <address@hidden> writes:
> ``in emacs: M-x install-by-url RET <paste URL here>''
>
> and have emacs download the package, unpack it, describe it to the user, and
> offer to activate it (adding any necessary code to .emacs, probably via a
> custom-style equivalent).

You are pretty much describing how el-get already works.

>  This could also ask any required questions up
> front. This seems easier (for the user) and more capable (for the
> developer).  Why the opposition? Emacs already contains facilities that
> modify the user's startup files for them, and has for decades.

I hate it when any other software edit my user files, that's the whole
point of `user-load-dir'.

Regards,
-- 
dim