Re: leim/quail and mule doble names of pkg

[Stefan Monnier]

> For example
> hebrew.el
> Is in
> leim/quail/hebrew.el for the input method
> But also in
> lisp/language/hebrew.el for the coding
> Is this wise?

I'm not sure if "wise" is the right question, but yes, there are some
problems in this area.  With the CEDET integration we have many more
such cases.  IIRC XEmacs has other cases with its packages's
"autoload" files.

The way those "same name files" are distinguished depends on the
particular case, and the potential problems are mostly avoided in
ad-hoc ways.

For CEDET, we basically consider the file's name to be
(file-relative-name buffer-file-name load-path), which does make those
file names unique again.  The same has been used for term/*.el files in
the past.  But this is not supported consistently (e.g. eval-after-load
does not understand this convention, IIRC).

For other files, we just try to treat those files specially (they don't
`provide' their name and aren't loaded via load-path), which comes with
its own set of problems and limitations.

I'd be happy to see someone tackle this issue and try to come up with
a set of solutions which we can then try to support consistently.


        Stefan