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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why keep generated lisp/international/uni-*.el in the repo?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:41:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk3fthhhx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ckhaay9pw9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2013 04:04:38 -0500")

> Why do we keep the generated files lisp/internation/uni-*.el, charprop.el
> in the repo, rather than generating them during bootstrap?

Good question.

> Is it just that "they don't change very often, and it makes bootstrap a
> tiny bit faster"?

Maybe it's only historical (the scripts to build them were run in an
ad-hoc manner).  Or maybe they rely on tools which may not always be
available?

> On my machine, it takes me ~ 5 seconds to generate them;
> compared to ~ 5 mins for a bootstrap.
> It doesn't seem worth keeping them for that.

As a user of slow machines where bootstrap is rather in the half-hour
area, I think I wouldn't care about an extra 30 seconds, indeed.


        Stefan



      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-27  9:04 why keep generated lisp/international/uni-*.el in the repo? Glenn Morris
2013-11-27 13:20 ` Andy Moreton
2013-11-27 17:18 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-27 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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