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From: | Jason Rumney |
Subject: | Re: Automatic bootstrap |
Date: | Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:36:24 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) |
Richard M Stallman wrote:
A week or so there was a discussion about the inconvenience of the existence of `make bootstrap'. I suggested that we create a source file bootstrap.el whose compiled file, bootstrap.elc, would control whether `make emacs' does a bootstrap or not. We could also change bootstrap.el trivially after installing any change which we think makes it advisable for testers to bootstrap afresh.
I don't think it will work, as developers who make changes that make it advisable to bootstrap would forget to change that file. Other developers might change it needlessly, causing testers with low end hardware unnecessary pain.
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