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bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without au
From: |
Basil Contovounesios |
Subject: |
bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads |
Date: |
Sun, 07 May 2023 11:46:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Eli Zaretskii [2023-05-06 16:23 +0300] wrote:
>> Cc: 63260@debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 15:10:23 +0200
>> From: Basil Contovounesios via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> Robert Pluim [2023-05-05 08:36 +0200] wrote:
>>
>> > The file-missing error is expected, no? Thatʼs why the autoloads
>> > loading is wrapped in `with-demoted-errors'. Although if the message
>> > bothers
>> > you, I guess we could check `file-exists-p' for it.
>>
>> I think it's problematic to emit even a demoted error for supported
>> circumstances, such as a 'library' package that defines no autoload
>> cookies.
>>
>> Besides, shouldn't the autoloads file be generated unconditionally?
>> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2022-06/msg00570.html
>>
>> While the error logged to *Messages* is relatively silent, its subequent
>> repetition on Emacs startup is not:
>>
>> $ emacs-29
>> Error loading autoloads: (file-missing Cannot open load file
>> No such file or directory
>> /tmp/tmp.QQvQfBZ384/.emacs.d/elpa/sicp-20200512.1137/sicp-autoloads)
>>
>> This does not seem like TRT to me.
>
> What happened in Emacs 28 in the same situation?
Emacs 28.2 installs and activates the sicp package without complaints,
and generates the following -autoloads.el file, as expected:
sicp-autoloads.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp
The current emacs-29 generates no such autoloads file, because the sicp
package defines no autoloads. But in general the -autoloads.el file is
nevertheless needed, at least for its load-path logic.
Contrast this with a package that defines even a single autoload cookie,
such as the bluetooth package on GNU ELPA. In this case emacs-29 does
TRT:
bluetooth-autoloads.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp
--
Basil
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, (continued)
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Robert Pluim, 2023/05/04
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Basil Contovounesios, 2023/05/04
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Robert Pluim, 2023/05/05
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/06
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Robert Pluim, 2023/05/06
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Basil Contovounesios, 2023/05/06
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/06
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Basil Contovounesios, 2023/05/07
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Basil Contovounesios, 2023/05/06
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/06
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads,
Basil Contovounesios <=
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/07
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/05/07
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/07
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/05/07
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/07
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/05/07
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/08
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Robert Pluim, 2023/05/08
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/08
- bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads, Robert Pluim, 2023/05/08