Re: The load path

[Neil Jerram]

Greg Troxel wrote:

>        --with-built-in-load-path='("foo" default "bar")'
>
> That looks good.  The question is whether that's about prefixes, or
> actual directories.  It might be nice to have some way to specify
> either, where prefix means the default list of places in a prefix.
>  
I think the extras can be actual directories, as:

- it seems to me there isn't a strong need for extra prefixes: the point 
about .../1.6 versus .../site is to provide a distinction between code 
installed by the Guile install itself, and code installed by third 
parties; so $additional_prefix/share/guile/1.6 would usually be 
pointless and unused

- in the case where one explicitly wants to include the non-site 
directory of another Guile installation (dangerous though this sounds!), 
one can do so by listing it as an "actual directory"; also note that if 
one is doing such strange things, the $effective_version of the other 
Guile install might be different from the one being configured, so the 
prefix approach wouldn't help anyway.

> It would also be nice to be able to include $prefix/lib/guile/site, so
> that packages intended for guile ttn-1.4 work without needing a
> symlink into share.
>  
Out of interest, can you expand on this? What kind of file is installed 
there, and is that the only thing needed to make ttn-guile packages work?

Regards,
Neil