* Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 5d1e62e: When autoload-timestamps is nil, use a dummy timestamp rather than "t".
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@ 2016-04-24 14:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-25 17:57 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2016-04-24 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel; +Cc: Glenn Morris
> +;; In some ways it would be nicer to use a value that is recognisably
> +;; not a time-value, eg t, but that can cause issues if an older Emacs
> +;; that does not expect non-time-values loads the file.
I can't think of any scenario where this would be a problem, other than
far-fetched ones.
Stefan
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2016-04-24 14:56 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 5d1e62e: When autoload-timestamps is nil, use a dummy timestamp rather than "t" Stefan Monnier
@ 2016-04-25 17:57 ` Glenn Morris
2016-04-25 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2016-04-25 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> +;; In some ways it would be nicer to use a value that is recognisably
>> +;; not a time-value, eg t, but that can cause issues if an older Emacs
>> +;; that does not expect non-time-values loads the file.
>
> I can't think of any scenario where this would be a problem, other than
> far-fetched ones.
No, it (generate a loaddefs file with Emacs > 25.1, then try to
incrementally update it with <= 25.1) isn't very likely.
(I vaguely wondered if it could happen with package.el?)
This was a probable over-reaction to
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-04/msg00654.html
and subsequent.
Frankly I'm not sure what my preference is any more.
Do you think it should go back to "t"?
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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 5d1e62e: When autoload-timestamps is nil, use a dummy timestamp rather than "t".
2016-04-25 17:57 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2016-04-25 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2016-04-25 20:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel
> (I vaguely wondered if it could happen with package.el?)
No, package.el should only ever build new autoloads files from scratch
and never update them afterwards. But I guess some future package.el
(or other package that extends package.el) could conceivably try to do
it, admittedly in a hypothetical case.
Stefan
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