Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:47:36 +0200
> 
> > We are permissive.  We just want to be consistent in the stuff we
> > generate.
> 
> load-path is a user-level variable. Changing package.el behavior is 
> fine, but if we document load-path to only have "directory name" 
> elements, some code might decide to rely on it.

We don't advise to rely on that.  We also recommend using
expand-file-name, which should tolerate both.

If someone wants to fix default-directory to not use the trailing
slash, I don't object.  I just hope we won't have to discuss all the
other variables that hold directory names.

All in all, I feel that this bikeshedding episode should end.