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Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:43:48 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >How else would you trigger refresh of loaddefs.el?
> 
> I'd have it depend on the files that were last used
> to generate loaddefs.el.  The list of such files
> could be computed automatically, when generating
> loaddefs.el, and the list could be shipped as part
> of the Emacs tarball so that the process would work
> even for people not using a version control system,
> or who have imported Emacs into some other version
> control system.
> 
> It shouldn't be that hard, though we should not
> be installing this sort of change during a feature
> freeze.

+1

To both the recommendation and the caveat that we
shouldn't do it now.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>



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