Subject: bug#43627: closed (Re: [PATCH core-updates v2 1/2] guix: Add an append-separator? field to the <search-path-specification> record.)

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Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 14:25:02 +0000

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#43627: [PATCH core-updates]: Add a 'append-separator?' field to the <search-path-specification> record.

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Subject: Re: [PATCH core-updates v2 1/2] guix: Add an append-separator? field to the <search-path-specification> record.
From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
To: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Leo Prikler <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 10:24:33 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi!

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> This new field allows to specify in a search-path-specification that a
>> trailing separator should be added to the computed value of the environment
>> variable.  A trailing separator sometimes has the meaning that the usual
>> builtin locations should be looked up as well as the ones explicitly
>> specified.
>>
>> One use case is to specify the Emacs library paths using EMACSLOADPATH.  This
>> allows to not embed the Emacs version in its search path specification, which
>> has been shown to cause issues when upgrading a profile or when defining
>> variant Emacs packages of different versions.
>
> Got it now.  :-)
>
> Leo.s patch series seems to be addressing the same issue:
>
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47661
>
> Should we hold on until we.ve reviewed and acted upon #47661?  Or does
> it have known uses apart from Emacs?

The above as now been merged, obsoleting this series.  Closing!

Thanks,

Maxim

Subject: [PATCH core-updates]: Add a 'append-separator?' field to the <search-path-specification> record.
From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
To: guix-patches <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 02:11:17 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello Guix!

These three commits extend our search-path-specification record with a
new field, that can be used to produce a trailing separator, which can
be useful at least with Emacs (I can think of at least another place
where it could be used: the INFOPATH variable).

It was motivated to allow defining the Emacs search path in a more
robust way.

Thanks!

Maxim