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Re: Recognizing obsolete external package versions
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Recognizing obsolete external package versions |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:51:53 -0400 |
> I think it would be better to check at the beginning of loading the file
> rather than at the end.
Why would that matter?
So that it won't actually load the version that causes trouble.
With semantic, that causes hangs, right?
> That is possible by searching for "(defvar VARIABLE",
> evaluating the sexp that comes next, and looking at its value.
That sounds like a lot of work for very little benefit: currently files are
loaded by doing an `fopen' and then reading and parsing directly from there,
so it's never put into a buffer where a search could take place.
It won't be a big loss to read the whole file and search it before
loading it, if we only do it for a few recognized file names.
- Recognizing obsolete external package versions, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/08
- Re: Recognizing obsolete external package versions, Glenn Morris, 2007/08/13
- Re: Recognizing obsolete external package versions, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/13
- Re: Recognizing obsolete external package versions, Kim F. Storm, 2007/08/13
- Re: Recognizing obsolete external package versions, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/13