From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: 20867@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20867: 24.5; Change behavior of `batch-byte-compile' for directory arguments
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 23:17:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ry4d1qo.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2bng8ampb.fsf@gmail.com> (Philipp Stephani's message of "Sun, 21 Jun 2015 21:25:04 +0200")
Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
> The behavior of `batch-byte-compile' differs between file name and
> directory arguments: For file name arguments, compilation happens if
> NOFORCE is not set, if the destination file doesn't exist, or if it is
> older than the source file. For directories, however, compilations
> happens if the destination file already exists *and* it is older than
> the source file; NOFORCE is ignored. This behavior is not documented,
> and I find it quite unintuitive. Please change the behavior for
> directories to match the behavior for files.
Yes, that's pretty odd behaviour, but I don't think it makes sense to
change it now -- it's been like this for decades.
Instead I've now just explained what it does in the doc string in Emacs
27.
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2015-06-21 19:25 bug#20867: 24.5; Change behavior of `batch-byte-compile' for directory arguments Philipp Stephani
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