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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary
	<jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 23:26:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr1vrf91r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f5da1c3-1311-44ca-80f7-942d9a0537b4@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 10 May 2020 18:51:05 -0700 (PDT)")

>  (provide 'my-feature)  ; Ignored by byte compiler,
>                         ;   evaluated by 'load'.
>  (require 'my-feature)  ; Evaluated by byte compiler.

Yes, it used to be popular.  But it is the telltale sign of a recursive
dependency between packages, which is something better avoided (just
like `advice` is better avoided: we *do* want to support it because it's
really handy when you really need it, but don't abuse it).

So please don't go there unless you have to.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-11  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-09 15:02 "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-09 15:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-09 16:47   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10  2:19     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 14:17       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-10 15:05         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 16:49           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-10 17:13             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 19:28               ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11  1:02                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 19:35               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11  1:08                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-11  1:51                   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11  3:26                     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-05-11  4:23                       ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11  4:40                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11  6:57                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-11 15:09                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 15:23                               ` Drew Adams
2020-05-12  0:59                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-12  3:21                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12  3:50                                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-12 15:46                                     ` Drew Adams
2020-05-13  1:43                                       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-13  2:05                                         ` Drew Adams
2020-05-13  2:27                                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-13  2:33                                             ` Drew Adams
2020-05-13  2:46                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-13  3:02                                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-16 10:23                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 12:39                                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-16 14:38                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 15:20                                                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-12 15:46                                 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 15:13                             ` Drew Adams
2020-05-12  3:18                               ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-11  3:23                   ` Stefan Monnier

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