From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Automatic updates for loaddefs-type files Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:21:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3eliznl2io.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302110478 23186 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2011 17:21:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 19:21:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7WPq-00039s-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:21:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7WPp-0000a9-7u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46388 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7WPh-0000ZZ-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7WPg-0007V8-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7WPf-0007V3-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40599) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7WPf-00088h-Fu; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:21:03 -0400 X-Spook: TWA Mole Geraldton Aldergrove CIDA Semtex Exon Shell X-Ran: \aM4m&:@jSp_/^i#d$G&V#e0Zj+:Ga7VI.p&>9KU+RjOfCtxT/:l=\MmRm/PNrmasg&fZ+ X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:24:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138256 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Though maybe the ldefs-boot part should only be run once a week? Month? >> Otherwise it's going to update every time a file with an autoload gets >> changed, which is probably going to be annoying. > > I was just going to complain about that, yes ;-) > I think it's OK to update it "manually" when the need appears. > After all, and old version is only a problem if it breaks bootstrap. Well, at the moment I made the ldefs-boot bit once a month only. No harm in keeping it reasonably up-to-date? But it's easily disabled if you like, or if this turns out to be annoying.