From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug in save-some-buffers or diff.el?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:28:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4qy1b5k6.fsf@boost-consulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ismh49y5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "22 Oct 2003 17:35:14 +0300")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> BTW, I'm sure that current behavior of `load' is wrong. It always
> tries to load .elc file first, even if it's older than .el. But often
> it causes too much trouble after updating .el files. There are many
> reasons why this happens: user forgets to recompile updated .el files,
> something goes wrong in the make process, etc. Yes, `load' reports
> a warning, but usually this warning goes unnoticed, which results in
> broken functionality. Instead, `load' should load the newest of .el
> or .elc files, and report the same warning as a simple reminder to
> recompile updated .el files to execute them faster.
Yes, indeed.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-22 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-22 0:07 bug in save-some-buffers or diff.el? David Abrahams
2003-10-22 8:38 ` Juri Linkov
2003-10-22 9:35 ` David Abrahams
2003-10-22 12:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-22 15:22 ` David Abrahams
2003-10-22 14:35 ` Juri Linkov
2003-10-22 16:28 ` David Abrahams [this message]
2003-10-22 16:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-22 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-23 4:53 ` Juri Linkov
2003-10-23 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-23 8:00 ` Juri Linkov
2003-10-24 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-23 18:38 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-23 19:47 ` David Abrahams
2003-10-24 10:41 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-27 17:44 ` emacshear (was: bug in save-some-buffers or diff.el?) Juri Linkov
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