Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 17:15:27 -0400
> 
> >> >     `load-path' should contain only directory names
> >> You mean names with a trailing slash?  Why?
> > No, he means without the trailing slash.
> 
> Same difference: why?

Because the documentation says so.

> In any case the code that uses load-path can't assume that there is (or
> isn't) a slash, because some .emacs files use a trailing slash and
> others don't.

I agree that the code should be defensive.  But that's not the issue
here.  The issue was the additions made by package.el.