Would you be amenable to me pushing the attached patch?

Jackson

On 12/17/2016 07:18 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Apparently, tar uses gnulib's excluded_file_name function, which appears
>> to delegate to fnmatch, which looks pretty complex to me.  I'm not aware
>> of a "standalone" command providing an interface for this pattern
>> matcher, but if one exists, maybe we could utilize that.
> 
> I think we could use sh's "case" patterns for that.
> 
>> Another option might be to generate an archive with tar and then use the
>> list of included files to determine what to compile.  This command:
>>
>> $ tar -ch packages/context-coloring/ --exclude-vcs -X \
>>   packages/context-coloring/.elpaignore | tar --list
>>
>> Produces this output:
> 
>> packages/context-coloring/
>> packages/context-coloring/LICENSE
>> packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-emacs-lisp.el
>> packages/context-coloring/README.md
>> packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-javascript.el
>> packages/context-coloring/context-coloring.el
>>
>> We could filter down the ".el" files from there.
> 
> That might work as well, indeed.
> 
> BTW, given the current GNUmakefile, it's easy/natural to only test
> .elpaignore matches for those files which end in .el and which don't yet
> have a .elc file.  I expect this would be an important optimization to
> make sure that "make" is fast when there's not much to (re)compile.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
>