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Re: Proposal: directory-slash in library names


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Proposal: directory-slash in library names
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:12:43 +0200

> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:08:15 -0500
> From: "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> I experimented and it already does the right thing on GNU/Linux.  One
> can write:
> 
> : (require 'dir1/dir2/feature)
> 
> and emacs will load-file "feature.el" from "dir1/dir2" beneath any
> directory in load-path.
> 
> I cannot test it on other systems, but from the C source, it seems as
> though it will work on any system that `expand-file-name' works on.
> That apparently translates dir separators, eg it calls
> CORRECT_DIR_SEPS for WIN_NT.

Not only does it work on all platforms, we already use it with CEDET.
So if you needed an official blessing, you already have it, I think.




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