From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in save-some-buffers or diff.el? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:28:09 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <874qy1brau.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87ismh49y5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066840260 17914 80.91.224.253 (22 Oct 2003 16:31:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 18:30:55 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACLst-00056L-00 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:30:55 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACLst-0006wb-00 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:30:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ACLqv-0003Dj-5Y for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:28:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ACLqo-0003DQ-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:28:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ACLqI-00038F-Nh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.172.4.61] (helo=smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ACLqI-00037k-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from 209-150-60-107.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.150.60.107] helo=PENGUIN.boost-consulting.com) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 1ACLqH-0000hw-00; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:28:13 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87ismh49y5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "22 Oct 2003 17:35:14 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17348 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17348 Juri Linkov 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