Re: [ELPA] New package: ERC

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The way you're suggesting to do it, `erc-autoloads.el` will end up
>> defining/autoloading a lot more "stuff" even when ERC is not
>> used/loaded.  Maybe it's not terribly important, but I think it's
>> important to be aware of the difference.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.  Admittedly, my understanding of the
> autoload machinery is somewhat lacking.  Would you please elaborate
> more on this?

I think I was just confused.  I thought ERC used a similar mechanism to
the one used by MH-E and Tramp (where they use special lisp/Makefile
rules to generate their <pkg>-loaddefs.el files).


        Stefan