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* pkg-autoloads.el vs. pkg-loaddefs.el
@ 2024-03-20 12:56 Ihor Radchenko
  2024-06-14 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier via Emacs development discussions.
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread
From: Ihor Radchenko @ 2024-03-20 12:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Hello,

According to 43.1 Packaging Basics section of Elisp manual, package
autoloads are saved into pkg-autoloads.el file.

However, on master, there is also `generated-autoload-file' variable
that can override the file name where to write the autoloads. So,
pkg-autoloads.el is not always the file where autoloads are written.

Further, `elpaa-batch-generate-autoloads' in ELPA/admin/elpa-admin.el
hard-codes pkg-autoloads.el. And I got a report that in some Emacs
packages distributed through ELPA (org-mode, tramp, hyperbole), both
pkg-autoloads and pkg-loaddefs are generated.

Finally, all the libraries in Emacs core are using name-loaddefs.el.

I feel confused about where to use which name. There is apparent
inconsistency in the above facts.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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2024-06-17 13:45   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-17 14:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2024-06-18 16:00       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-18 17:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2024-06-18 17:39           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-18 19:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2024-06-18 20:03               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-18 20:12                 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-06-19 15:32                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-19 15:58                     ` Stefan Monnier
2024-06-19 16:22                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-19 20:35                         ` Stefan Monnier
2024-06-20  5:01                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-28 13:52                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-14  0:31                               ` Stefan Monnier
2024-08-14  5:43                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-20 15:33                           ` Ihor Radchenko

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