Re: autoload cookies for defcustoms

[Wojciech Meyer]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> Wojciech Meyer wrote:
>
>> toplevel code evaluated). It is up to maintainers what to do with the
>> patch, it just shows `defcustoms' with `autoload'. I might refine it if
>> somebody comes up with rules to follow.
>
> You can't really come up with a rule. The problem is often historical.
> People get used to using these variables in their .emacs without
> loading the associated packages. Removing the autoloads breaks their
> .emacs. And there's no compatible way to get from here to there (eg
> you cannot mark an autoload obsolete, not that anyone would notice
> anyway).
>

> Some examples of such problems are
>
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00956.html
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2150

Thanks for pointing this out.

Yes, I can see the problem, but wouldn't be that solved using some kind
of dependency tracker and `require'?

Cheers;
Wojciech