From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62094 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.mail.mh-e.devel Subject: Re: Modifying image-load-path/load-path Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:52:43 -0800 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <15288.1140918763@olgas.newt.com> References: <7620.1140477119@olgas.newt.com> <878xrzm20y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140918987 18253 80.91.229.2 (26 Feb 2006 01:56:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:56:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10622@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 26 02:56:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FDB95-0004lO-MK for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:56:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FDB91-0000Ja-00; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:56:19 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FDB5z-0000JV-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:53:11 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FDB5x-0000xJ-2X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:53:11 -0600 Original-Received: from pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([207.69.195.62]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FDB5w-0003OZ-00 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:53:08 +0100 Original-Received: from h-68-165-3-145.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net ([68.165.3.145] helo=olgas.newt.com) by pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1FDB5k-0006aD-00; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:52:56 -0500 Original-Received: by olgas.newt.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1938D1702C; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:52:44 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from olgas.newt.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olgas.newt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131D517005; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:52:44 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Chong Yidong In-Reply-To: Chong Yidong's message of Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:50:21 EST. <878xrzm20y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.92+cvs; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50.7 X-Image-URL: http://www.newt.com/wohler/images/bill-diving.png Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62094 gmane.emacs.devel:50978 gmane.mail.mh-e.devel:11769 Archived-At: Chong Yidong wrote: > Bill Wohler writes: > > > We are also working to replace redundant code for locating our packages' > > images and updating image-load-path (load-path in Emacs 21) with a > > single function in image.el. > > > > Our question for you is this: should such a function actually modify the > > image-load-path (as MH-E does now), or simply return a modified version > > of image-load-path for use in a scoped variable copy of image-load-path > > (as Gnus does now)? > > IMO, using a scoped copy is cleaner. Is there any reason to modify > the image-load-path permanently? The same reason that *any* directory is in image-load-path, I suppose. If MH-E is run within CVS Emacs, then the MH-E user sees MH-E images on image-load-path. If the user then ran the MH-E package outside of CVS Emacs, then wouldn't it be strange if suddenly, the MH-E images were no longer on the image-load-path? -- Bill Wohler http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.