Re: GnuTLS for W32

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:48:23 +0100
>>
>> If, at run time, you can find the elisp packages downloaded by
>> package.el, what's the problem with finding a dll on the same directory
>> (or a subdirectory of it, if you wish) ?
>
> Because load-path is used for loading Lisp, but not for loading DLLs.

The code in a Lisp package can extract its package directory from the
variable `load-file-name'.  The Multi-file Packages node of the Lisp
manual gives an example of this.

I'm not saying we should distribute GnuTLS support via ELPA, only that
the Package system is no technical barrier.