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: Files from gnulib Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:12:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83y66bzuhc.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C81A1.70009@cs.ucla.edu> <83ipxfymox.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3E0A8E.1030400@cs.ucla.edu> <8362tdzl7m.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3E8E4C.1010000@cs.ucla.edu> <4D3F1171.5010201@cs.ucla.edu> <83y668yfgt.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3F6BAA.4080802@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296011574 28238 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 03:12:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 04:12:49 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhvoM-0000G8-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:12:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhvoL-0003wm-Gv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:12:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36140 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhvoG-0003wS-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhvoF-0003hd-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:12:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:49993 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhvoF-0003hQ-P0; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:12:39 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEABEgP01MCo4O/2dsb2JhbACkcnS6KYVPBIUXj2g X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,378,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="89248682" Original-Received: from 76-10-142-14.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([76.10.142.14]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 25 Jan 2011 22:12:36 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B080166102; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:12:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4D3F6BAA.4080802@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:32:42 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:134977 Archived-At: >> Here's a compromise: >> - let's do the renames that need to be done (they're really not >> problematic, AFAICT). >> - let's try and get this "djtar -n emacs-25.chg emacs-25.tgz" to work >> reliably, e.g. by auto-building the emacs-25.chg file as part of >> make-dist, so there's no way for that file to be "missing renames". > It might also be a good idea to add an alternate-load-library-alist variable > which require and load could consult when attempts to load a file fail. > That would also be useful on other platforms for the CEDET rename and > similar cases. Indeed. This could even be auto-filled by autoload.el if we add support in it for entries like: ;;;###autoload (provide 'foo) -- Stefan