From: Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>, 48025@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48025: 28.0.50; Add an invocation option to inhibit native-compilation functionality
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:39:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xjfsg3ayz9h.fsf@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h7jrj1fm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:34:53 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: 48025@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
>> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:28:24 +1200
>>
>> >> But frankly, I would hesitate to complicate Emacs even for the latter
>> >> possibility. What you ask for doesn't seem to be a user-level
>> >> feature, it is mainly important for Emacs developers, and those can
>> >> always build 2 separate binaries (e.g., I already did). Building a
>> >> differently-configured Emacs, even from the same Git repository, is so
>> >> easy that I don't really see a justification for a feature like you
>> >> describe.
>>
>> I guess time will tell. My feeling was that if end users encounter
>> native-comp bugs that are not trivial for the maintainers to reproduce
>> (e.g. some collection of third-party packages is involved), then it
>> might be super helpful to be able to ask them to test with native-comp
>> disabled, to confirm whether or not that is a factor. As many users
>> will, in future, be running a native-comp Emacs which has been pre-
>> packaged for their OS, they will not easily be able to perform such a
>> test without such a feature.
>
> I agree that we should probably revisit the issue after we have more
> experience with native-compilation.
>
>> > - inhibit the automatic native compilation of new code with
>> > `comp-deferred-compilation'.
>>
>> This, OTOH, doesn't use the "native" keyword at all.
>>
>> Could we rename any such variables so that everything to do with
>> native compilation includes the word "native"?
>
> Yes, I think it's a good idea. Perhaps also the commands in comp.el
> and even some non-interactive functions?
I'll be happy to rename these functions if we come-up with a list.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-28 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-26 5:52 bug#48025: 28.0.50; Add an invocation option to inhibit native-compilation functionality Phil Sainty
2021-04-26 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-26 14:10 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-04-27 4:28 ` Phil Sainty
2021-04-27 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-28 19:39 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2021-04-29 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-29 14:33 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-04-29 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-29 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-29 15:22 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-04-29 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-06 15:19 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-06 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-30 13:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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