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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: trentbuck@gmail.com, elpa@tromey.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 08:33:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85tztxo3ss.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HsS2r-0007aF-KC@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 27 May 2007 19\:21\:05 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Emacs is not well-equipped to have source and byte code in different
>     directories.  For example, it messes with the load path order: Emacs
>     will prefer loading an .el file in an earlier place in the load-path
>     over a .elc file in a later place.
>
> That is not a problem for this approach, because the directory for the
> specific version always comes before the version-independent directory.

You are talking about "the directory".  load-path establishes an
_order_, and we can have repetitive elements in this order when the
user installs his own version of some packages intended to override
the system version.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-28  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-21 13:47 package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions Trent Buck
2007-05-21 18:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21 23:01   ` Kevin Ryde
2007-05-22  0:11   ` Trent Buck
2007-05-25 16:00     ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-26  1:32       ` Michael Olson
2007-05-26  6:34         ` David Kastrup
2007-05-26 10:34           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-26 10:40             ` David Kastrup
2007-05-26  5:33       ` Trent Buck
2007-05-26  6:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-27  1:00       ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-27  3:54         ` Trent Buck
2007-05-27  5:41         ` David Kastrup
2007-05-27 23:21           ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-28  6:33             ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-05-29  0:02               ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-30  0:44           ` Michael Olson
2007-05-30 15:44             ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-28 21:35       ` Stefan Monnier

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