Re: Modified load-path proposal

[Neil Jerram]

Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:

> That all sounds fine, except that I think (policy!) we should either
> discourage putting stuff under 1.6, or suggest 1.6/site, so that
> guile's own files and other stuff are cleanly separated.  I agree that
> mechanism sufficient for various policies is the key point, but think
> we also need to suggest sane behavior to avoid future messes to be
> backwards-compat with.

OK.  We can do this by a combination of (i) setting the default so
that 3rd party stuff doesn't go under 1.6, (ii) providing a note on
this point for distributors (new top level DISTRIBUTION file?).

     Neil