From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: loaddefs and provide
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wem58fz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6mmb4i7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:10:08 -0500")
> This is unwise. There are several third-party packages that depend on
> the old behavior (i.e. having a provide statement in the generated
> loaddefs file).
These only work with Emacs-23.1, then, so there can't be that many.
> This change causes too much incompatibility. We should revert it, at
> least for the 23.2 release.
If you want to revert it, go for it. The main thing I really wanted to
remove was generated-autoload-feature (tho I also think that without
a way to tweak the provided feature, the `provide' should better not be
there),
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-11-04 3:12 ` loaddefs and provide Glenn Morris
2009-11-04 3:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-04 8:37 ` Glenn Morris
2009-11-04 8:46 ` Glenn Morris
2009-11-04 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-04 19:11 ` Glenn Morris
2009-11-04 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-04 17:10 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-04 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-11-10 2:11 ` Glenn Morris
2009-11-10 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-10 18:40 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-04 9:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
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