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Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:45:46 -0700 (PDT) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> > Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:07:34 -0400
> >
> > >> > Does anyone know why we skip lisp/term in update-subdirs?
> > >> Because files in lisp/term are always loaded with the term/ prefix.
> > > Thanks. But why is that a good idea?
> >
> > It reduces the length of load-path and increases our namespace?
>
> But this can be said about any other subdirectory of lisp/, can't it?
>
> > Let me put it another way: why would it be a good idea to put lisp/term
> > in update-subdirs?
>
> To avoid a special case that someone could trip on. Every other
> subdirectory gets subdirs.el created in it, but term does not.
> Imagine that we will want to have subdirectories under term some day.
> Why ask maintainers to use up one more register for remembering this
> factoid, or risk strange failures/bugs?
>
> That said, I won't argue. If the above is not convincing, then so be
> it.
IMHO it's not convincing at all. Let's look at the history, the latest
files added in lisp/term:
term/common-win.el on 2008-07-20 (it's just a refactoring of existing
term/*win.el files)
term/ns-win.el on 2008-07-15 -- new port, we don't get these very often, we
have 4 total...
term/cygwin.el on 2005-07-22
term/linux.el on 1997-07-04
Based on the past, the probability of something dramatic happening there
is very small, and it can be dealt with at the time it happens.
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, (continued)
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/27
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/26
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/09/27
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/27
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/09/27
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/27
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/26
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/09/26
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Chong Yidong, 2009/09/26
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/26
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Carsten Dominik, 2009/09/29
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/26
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/27
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/09/28
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/28
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, joakim, 2009/09/28
- Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term, Chong Yidong, 2009/09/28