Re: load-path contains directories or directory names?

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 23:26:54 -0500
>> 
>> Here `dir' is taken from load-path, or a similar user-provided path. The
>> doc string for `load-path' says it consists of "directory names". In
>> emacs -Q, `load-path' indeed has no elements that end in '/'.
>> 
>> However, after (package-initialize), `load-path' had elements that end
>> in '/'. This comes from package-autoload-ensure-default-file in
>> package.el, which adds lines like this to each package's autoload:
>> 
>> "(add-to-list 'load-path (or (file-name-directory #$) (car load-path)))\n"
>> 
>> Is this a bug, or should code that uses `load-path' tolerate this?
>
> It's a bug, patches are welcome to fix it.

Pushed in 4d3a595d8d3e6a111399e9f1c7dd3c3c30184e61

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