Re: Modifying image-load-path/load-path

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> 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?

Thanks, Chong. I'm surprised you were the only one who replied. Since
both you and the Gnus project leaned towards a scoped variable, I took
that approach and checked in image-load-path-for-library just now.

Reiner, if you haven't done so already, it would be good to
deprecate/replace calls to mm-image-load-path and possibly
nnheader-find-etc-directory too.

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