From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:54:04 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <567B968C.6060305@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87k2ph3mgx.fsf@gnu.org> <87io4lnkyz.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvtwoktg.fsf@gnu.org> <878u5gkakj.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8pwoesc.fsf@gnu.org> <87two3475d.fsf@gnu.org> <5665D6B9.4030309@cs.ucla.edu> <5665DAA1.2080208@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2o9t6t1.fsf@gnu.org> <56771D52.2070406@cs.ucla.edu> <83fuytp1au.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1txozu9.fsf@gnu.org> <567B0D81.2000106@cs.ucla.edu> <83mvt0o70j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450940065 17404 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2015 06:54:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 06:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 07:54:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aBzmx-00078v-Tq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 07:54:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBzmw-00037q-NH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBzmt-00037h-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBzmt-0005ZY-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:54:11 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:41187) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBzmp-0005Yp-5U; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94454160CC0; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:54:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id vqzO3lm6ZpPJ; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:54:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77CE160D25; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:54:04 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Wgy5ilETw7NJ; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:54:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C7512160CC0; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:54:04 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: <83mvt0o70j.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196756 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Some code out there that expects the value to be a string might become > broken by such a change, I think. I doubt whether there is any such code that will break. No code uses the variable within Emacs itself; I just checked. And the variable is not documented to contain only a string, so strictly speaking the implementation can make the variable nil if wants to. We should also obsolete the variable, while we're at it. There's a comment to that effect before the variable. Really, code should not be using emacs-build-system.