From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 05:50:02 +0200 Message-ID: <838ugdf251.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y4t9m76w.fsf@lifelogs.com> <85k31coixa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85oapy5kt6.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83y4oiiw81.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423108235 30058 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2015 03:50:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 03:50:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Aur=C3=A9lien?= Aptel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 05 04:50:34 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 1YJDSb-0007c4-KJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:50:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJDSa-0004Qw-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 22:50:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJDSI-0004QY-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 22:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJDSD-0005ZM-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 22:50:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:37805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJDSD-0005Z5-Fw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 22:50:09 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJA00500538J200@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 05:45:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJA0019X538JO30@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 05:45:08 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:182426 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 22:58:08 +0100 > From: Aur=C3=A9lien Aptel > Cc: Stephen Leake ,=20 > =09Emacs development discussions >=20 > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote= : > > Most probably, that's not the right solution. You should instead > > refrain from declaring Qc, since make-doc and globals.h now take = care > > of that. See how other Q* symbols are defined and declared. >=20 > You can't expect modules to keep up with core global variables. At > least not for such generic, short variables which shouldn't be glob= al > in the first place. What do you think? I thought figuring out how to solve this is part of the job. Modules will not really be workable unless this issue is resolved in a way that doesn't break them with every change in the core.