Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:58:15 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> 1. Each of the defcustom items now has a require property.
>> The main benefit of this is that a user may now simply place
>> load-dir.el in their load path, use M-x load-library to load
>> 'load-dir' and then do a M-x customize-group to customize the
>> 'load-dir' group, customize load-dirs, and restart Emacs.  There is
>> no need to also manually edit their .emacs file to add a '(require
>> 'load-dir)' in order to actually cause Emacs to load load-dir.el.

SM> If it's meant as an ELPA package, this is unneeded, since just
SM> installing the package can cause installation of some autoloads.
SM> This is important because the use of :require in defcustoms is generally
SM> discouraged (it places the feature name (i.e. the file name) into the
SM> user's custom-file, so if the feature gets moved to another file or of
SM> the file gets renamed, previous cutomizations tend to signals errors
SM> about not finding the old file name).

OK, I've taken those requires out of my version.  Is it possible to put
it in the ELPA branch?

Ted