From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:18:39 +0200 Message-ID: <83wni8z9uo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834k5d3hbv.fsf@gnu.org> <83pmo11wij.fsf@gnu.org> <83fsox19of.fsf@gnu.org> <838rup14ft.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6378"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Corwin Brust Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 06 09:23:08 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nGcp9-0001Yn-NN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 09:23:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52252 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGcp7-0003On-Sa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 03:23:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34420) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGcl7-00011s-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 03:18:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=52750 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGcl7-0001fi-50; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 03:18:57 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=xOQlY9ubO8Fwak9W0mAcnBhc4DsNb20SCunmMo6XKu4=; b=Dr6BwaftjeXp lhX5sV7T4sTlfdm8XM2KP0+/g309Iu9SvU9l0ZYmXm8Nevyv2E9dNnhE6RmdlTcYI2zRBsAYYj/fy O0nVN1OwtzxWCGnNqibZnkuA7n6BoLqfw1QibLIMH93MUhJ4WEKhUns5tWKbhzwOhWISEVmo2ZYy5 c/0LbY+jSwOU+eROAHBBM63onA9+Et7mvSzHqS+wEy18gB+vH1RG3Op3WVsPoQRDdAZujDkvDZoRf raOj9BJAGvjL23rY420yc74vGrnvtnwhDNalfp7baKZUGVdYRZ/WTn9UduHgZK83fKdZgF7r773nH 9oyk1mq2753K+VVfusSGZQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3414 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGcl6-0002ER-8m; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 03:18:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Corwin Brust on Sat, 5 Feb 2022 16:56:58 -0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285938 Archived-At: > From: Corwin Brust > Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 16:56:58 -0600 > Cc: Emacs developers > > > [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. Indeed. Without that, there would be no easy way of asking Emacs to load a .elc file without natively-compiling it and replacing the .elc with a .eln.