From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113822: Add a test for decompressing gzipped data
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:27:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bo51pndd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520A471E.8090803@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:47:58 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The best would really be
> >
> > (if (fboundp 'zlib-decompress-region)
> > (zlib-decompress-region ...)
> > blabla)
> >
> > but I guess we can't have that because we also want to lazy-load the
> > zlib shared library, right?
>
> fboundp itself could do the lazy load, no?
> Or we could have an fboundp variant that
> does that. That way, we don't need to have
> a FOO-available-p function for every loadable
> library FOO.
There are situations where testing the availability of a feature
without actually invoking the feature makes a lot of sense. See my
other mail for the details.
In any case, we decide to get rid of the *-available-p functions, we
should do the same with images and gnutls.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-13 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-08-13 1:56 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113822: Add a test for decompressing gzipped data Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13 2:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 3:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-13 4:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-08-13 9:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-13 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 16:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-13 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13 14:47 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-13 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-08-13 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 16:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-13 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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