Re: [issue] XEmacs 21.5 can't find packages
Michael Sperber writes:
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> Maybe it just comes down to picking a different enough name to avoid
> confusion with the deprecated EMACSPACKAGEPATH?
Yeah, that's already a hard problem :-)
XEMACS_PACKAGES
I was thinking XEMACSPACKAGEROOT. If I let you have *two*
underscores, and you pick one place and I pick the other, how about
that?
My general position is that environment variables should say
something about the environment rather than about a particular
program's configuration, so a command-line option would also be
nice. (I recognize that the more common use cases will need an
environment variable.)
OK, both is fine with me. We can drop the "xemacs-" prefix for the
command line option: "-package-root" is long (but not insanely so?)
Granted, "-packages" is shorter.
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