Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:46:19PM +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > There is also the problem if getting users to modify their load-path's
> > to accommodate the new Gnus layout.
> 
> ... but this is a more serious problem.  Or does Emacs look into
> sub-directories of load-path these days?
> 
> Of course, one could do some load-path trickery in gnus.el -- mangle
> load-path when loading that file to reflect the new layout.  Which may
> be slightly naughty.  (This is for Gnus distributed separately only;
> not in Emacs, of course.)

The install directory layout need not mirror the source layout.  Why not just
_install_ things as gnus has always done -- into one directory?

[AFAIK, to get subdir loading to work you appropriate "subdirs.el" files in
place; Gnus could have one in the source tree to accomodate loading from
there.]

-Miles
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