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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, 66326@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#66326: 29.1.50; There should be a way to promote warnings to errors
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:02:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <835y28ydpx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ierpm0he18h.fsf@janestreet.com> (message from Spencer Baugh on Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:40:14 -0500)

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>    66326@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:40:14 -0500
> 
> I just ran into a situation like this yet again.  Again, there was a
> stray warning on startup (something about "Symbol’s value as variable is
> void", definitely concerning)

The text you quote is not a warning, it's an error.  --debug-init
should have taken care of debugging it, AFAIU.

And let me reiterate what I said previously (and you quoted here):

>>> More generally, I'm worried by the tendency of people to submit
>>> patches for Emacs as soon as they find something they think is missing
>>> in Emacs that they need for some one-time job.  Emacs is not supposed
>>> to be a huge heap of random features that someone at some time found
>>> useful for some random job.  Emacs is Free Software: you can easily
>>> implement this stuff in your local copy and use it as much as you
>>> want; no need to add that to the Emacs core, unless there's a real
>>> need for it expressed by enough people, and no better solutions in
>>> hand.  I do this for my local jobs all the time.

I still don't think I see why this particular issue should be
everyone's problem, not just something you solve locally, if you
indeed bump frequently into these issues.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-11  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-03 16:38 bug#66326: 29.1.50; There should be a way to promote warnings to errors Spencer Baugh
2023-10-03 18:39 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-03 18:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-03 19:16     ` sbaugh
2023-10-04  5:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-04 12:20         ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-14  7:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-14 22:25             ` sbaugh
2023-10-15  5:45               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-16 19:26                 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-19 12:13                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-19 14:50                     ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-19 15:07                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-19 15:18                         ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-19 15:42                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-19 16:15                             ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-20  7:20                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21  9:12                                 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-21 13:43                                   ` sbaugh
2023-11-10 21:40                                     ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-11  7:02                                       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-11 14:37                                         ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-11 14:51                                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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