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From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: jasonr@gnu.org
Cc: 5361@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5361: .elcs should tell more about the .els they were compiled from
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:27:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbqs12hd.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4B4BDA3B.5060608@gnu.org

>>>>> "JR" == Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
JR> If they are compiled by different versions of Emacs, then you can only
JR> safely assume they are different, even if the .el files they were
JR> compiled from are identical.
Yes but if the user wants to know "were the sources different?". If a
tiny bit of extra information were added to the boilerplate, then he
would have the answer instead of needing forensic analysis or something.






  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-12  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-11 18:29 bug#5361: .elcs should tell more about the .els they were compiled from jidanni
2010-01-12  2:11 ` Jason Rumney
2010-01-12  2:27   ` jidanni [this message]
2011-07-09 23:15     ` Glenn Morris

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