Re: Async rebuild package-quickstart after packages update? was Re: 28.0.50; Proposal: slightly more efficient package-quickstart.el

["T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>]

So then perhaps something like
(shell-command "emacs -batch -q -l package -f
package-quickstart-refresh")

 > T.V Raman [2021-08-04 07:20:49] wrote:
 > > Interesting:-) Other discussons on emacs-devel have declared that
 > > make-thread should never be used if the async call expects user-input
 > > -- so combining both conclusions, we might as well declare make-thread
 > > useless
 > 
 > Good point.  Indeed I mis(spoke|wrote): the fact that it doesn't need
 > user input makes it *possible* to use `make-thread`, but the fact that
 > it doesn't block on subprocess output (and instead spends all its time
 > interpreting ELisp code) makes `make-thread` useless because it will
 > basically never yield ;-(
 > 
 > Here, we really want to start a new Emacs process (in this specific case
 > we even *want* that process to be (mostly) fresh&clean, contrary to many
 > other situations where we'd want a new process that "configured just
 > like the current process").
 > 
 > 
 >         Stefan
 > 
 > 
 > > Stefan Monnier writes:
 > >  > T.V Raman [2021-08-03 19:24:59] wrote:
 > >  > > Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
 > >  > > So looking at package.el:
 > >  > > package-quickstart-refresh is called from
 > >  > > package--quickstart-maybe-refresh and looking at the code in
 > >  > > package-quickstart-refresh, it does not block on user input, so it may
 > >  > > just be sufficient to change the call to package-quickstart-refresh
 > >  > > to (make-thread  #'package-quickstart-refresh) --
 > >  > > Thoughts?
 > >  > 
 > >  > The fact that it doesn't block on user input makes `make-thread` fairly
 > >  > useless, I'm afraid.
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > >  >         Stefan
 > >
 > > -- 
 > >
 > > Thanks,
 > >
 > > --Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
 > > ♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮