On 3/9/06, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:

Hmm, I'm still going to have a look at why the 21.5 packages.el doesn't find the package directories from EMACSPACKAGEPATH.  The contents *look* the same as configure-package-path...


So this is the way I read it:

packages.el uses packages-find-package-hierarchies on the components of  EMACSPACKAGEPATH, which in my case has the value

 ~\.xemacs;C:\Program Files\XEmacs\site-packages;C:\Program Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages

Unfortunately, what it's doing is looking for 'site-packages' or 'xemacs-packages' as subdirectories of the components of that variable, which obviously isn't going to work.

I can delete the registry key easily enough, but what about those people who will be installing 21.5 on windows with an installer?  Will we remove the key for them, or do we need to change the packages.el logic?

Robert