From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: loaddefs and provide Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y6mmb4i7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257367640 23999 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2009 20:47:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 04 21:47:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N5ml6-0003Iy-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:47:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49976 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5ml5-0005qJ-QD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5mjY-0005Po-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5mjU-0005NO-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50004 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5mjU-0005NJ-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:17171 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N5mjQ-0004Lt-Fe; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:28 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkIFAF928UpFxJaf/2dsb2JhbACBT907hD0EiHc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,682,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="48702626" Original-Received: from 69-196-150-159.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.150.159]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 04 Nov 2009 15:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 91CEF9941; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:45:26 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87y6mmb4i7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:10:08 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116642 Archived-At: > 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