From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Source file '.../killer-source.el' newer than byte-compiled file Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:39:36 +0200 Message-ID: <86ftq8h8gn.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <8636m8ipt5.fsf@zoho.eu> <8336m84no5.fsf@gnu.org> <86lg00h8s2.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="192259"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 23 20:40:46 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ0LV-000nqx-Iw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ0LU-0001N3-JP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:40:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ0Kb-0000kA-5X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ0KZ-0001TS-57 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49548 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ0KY-0001Qe-T5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ0KT-000meR-Pf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:39:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:S61+UX7kI6NjyZBJq4SusX2EZlU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120040 Archived-At: >> Its purpose is to tell you that Emacs loads >> a .elc file that is older than the >> corresponding .el file. >> See load-prefer-newer. > > OK, so I should have that `t'! [...] > > Is there a downside to this, assuming the > latest version is always the better, and > b.elc *is* compiled eventually? Wait... there is the obvious downside which wasn't obvious enough for me to think of! How can one assume that b.el is better than the old b.elc *before* it has been compiled? No, this idea stinks! a.el should hold it compilation until all its `require'd files are byte-compiled! But how is that done? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573