Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 00:10:52 +0000
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> If I'm right about this then isn't there a bug in the
> Emacs 28 binary?  If not, why not?

Yes, it's a bug.  I though it should be evident from the questions I
asked Andrea and the patch I posted.

> > > [Nitpicking:] Would you consider it an omission that load-library is
> > > triggering a compilation but (load-file ".elc") not?  (No, probably not
> > > because load-file would need to consider files which are not directly
> > > submitted.)
> > 
> > IMO, no.  It's a feature:  when we specify an extension we get exactly
> > what we ask for, when we specify without any extension we get the
> > default behavior of favoring the most compiled version available,
> > creating the ELN if we can when we have an ELC but no ELN.
> 
> Isn't that what's happening?  It tries to load the
> ELC.

Happening where?  The above "nitpicking" was not about the problem you
reported, it was about a different situation and about a different
aspect of native compilation.