On 3/9/06, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, what the heck is an EMACSPACKAGEPATH key doing in my registry?  And why does (getenv "EMACSPACKAGEPATH") return its value. <sigh>  I knew running windows was going to be painful again.

Anyway, if I comment out the code in packages.el:packages-find-all-package-hierarchies that parses the EMACSPACKAGEPATH env var, then configure-package-path is used and it is parsed correctly (this is in vanilla beta, without Vin's patch), and all the packages are found.

I'm going to try again with Vin's patch in a second.


OK, eveything seems fine with the patch.  The question now is,

1). Is the parsing of EMACSPACKAGEPATH broken, or did I have it specified incorrectly?  The value here is ~\.xemacs;C:\Program Files\XEmacs\site-packages;C:\Program Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages


2). Where did it come from in the first place?  Does the 21.4 installer set it? Or did I set it and forget that I had it?

Robert