From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com>, 2061@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2061: 23.0.60; Add preference to force load of Elisp files when they are newer than corresponding byte-compiled file
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:08:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uljsyso8k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18813.7599.138907.415045@hungover.brentg.com>
> From: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:19:27 -0800
> Cc:
>
> When would the user ever prefer to load the .elc file after having
> modified the .el file?
When you are working on the .el file and it is not ready yet, or
buggy.
> My suggestion is to add a customizable preference variable called,
> say, load-prefer-newer-lisp-files (that needs a better name), that is
> recognized by the load function (defined in C code). When
> load-prefer-newer-lisp-files is non-nil, and when there is a .el and
> .elc file, and when the .el file is newer than the .elc file, it loads
> the .el file and not the .elc file (and possibly emits a warning of
> this action).
Yes, but please not now, not before Emacs 23.1 is released. We are in
feature freeze.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-26 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 2:19 bug#2061: 23.0.60; Add preference to force load of Elisp files when they are newer than corresponding byte-compiled file Brent Goodrick
2009-01-26 4:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-01-27 15:08 ` Brent Goodrick
2009-01-26 8:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 15:54 ` Brent Goodrick
2009-01-28 2:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-28 8:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-02-02 16:07 ` Brent Goodrick
2009-01-26 16:31 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-27 15:56 ` Brent Goodrick
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-27 0:49 Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 18:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-03 9:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-03 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
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