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Re: The load path
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Rob Browning |
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Re: The load path |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Nov 2004 10:19:36 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
> If the init actions are limited to %load-path tweaking, then I think
> a directory-of-(directories|symlinks) is sufficient. If the init
> actions can go beyond that (which will be possible if they are
> represented in Scheme files), then I'm not sure I want that to
> affect every one of my Guile invocations. I'm glad my shell
> scripts, Perl scripts, Python scripts, etc., aren't all forced to
> load some site-wide initialization code. Scripts know what they
> need, and take care of it themselves. Arbitrary init code is
> convenient for interactive interpreters, but I'm wary of
> establishing it for all invocations.
After thinking about it further, I'm leaning toward agreement. For
now, it might be best to stick with what we know we need:
- move init.scm from its current location to
${sysconfdir}/guile-X.Y/.
- add a configure argument that allows you to modify the default
load-path. One method I mentioned to Marius yesterday might be to
add something like:
--with-built-in-load-path='("foo" default "bar")'
where this value is read, 'default expands to the default path,
and we flatten any sub-lists.
Overall, I think it's a fair point that it may not be clear we need
generalized "startup actions" yet. After a bit more consideration, I
realized I couldn't think of any Guile add-on packages that really
need them at the moment. So unless we add features to Guile that do
require such actions (for Emacs, autoload settings are such a
feature), we should perhaps avoid any additional infrastructure.
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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- Re: The load path, Marius Vollmer, 2004/11/05
- Re: The load path, Paul Jarc, 2004/11/05
- Re: The load path, Rob Browning, 2004/11/05
- Re: The load path, Paul Jarc, 2004/11/05
- Re: The load path, Rob Browning, 2004/11/05
- Re: The load path, Paul Jarc, 2004/11/05
- Re: The load path, Rob Browning, 2004/11/05
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