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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Allow calling package-initialize more than once
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:33:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7ek9geav.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CADB4rJEtzsmXCEV2xspNh3O9ZG+HPRQERXBP2dfJipjNntvhgQ@mail.gmail.com

>> Perhaps you could just make package-initialize copy these values and
>> then do nothing if they have not changed.
> How about instead of trying to magically fix it, we signal a warning
> like present, except only when the aforementioned variables have
> changed between the two invocations of package-initialize?

I think running package-initialize in those cases will better reproduce
the old behavior, so I think it's better to do that than to skip
running it.
But yes, it needs a warning in any case.


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2018-08-29 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-11 19:51 Allow calling package-initialize more than once Radon Rosborough
2018-08-20 18:10 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-08-28 20:36   ` Radon Rosborough
2018-08-28 22:11     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-08-29 15:45       ` Radon Rosborough
2018-08-29  2:25 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-29 15:50   ` Radon Rosborough
2018-08-29 19:33     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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