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: why keep generated lisp/international/uni-*.el in the repo? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:41:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385574132 14467 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2013 17:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 27 18:42:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlj7x-0004M2-0E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:42:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlj7w-00017M-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:42:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlj7n-00016n-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlj7f-0003Sm-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:59759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlj7Q-0003P4-3g; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:41:44 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id rARHfhm6007266; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1FCFDB4014; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:41:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2013 04:04:38 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4775=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4775> : inlines <267> : streams <1081236> : uri <1607805> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165807 Archived-At: > 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