bug#10125: 24.0.91; package.el (org): Macros in tar packages & order of byte compilation

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> E.g. we could add to bytecomp.el the ability to force `require' to
> reload a package if it's not already loaded from the file that
> locate-library returns.

That will probably work fine most of the time, but what if a package is
restructed so that the feature names are different? Or a feature is
removed? Simply starting a fresh Emacs seems fine to me. Though there is
the issue of should it be a `-Q' one or not.

BTW, I was also thinking that rather than simply byte-recompiling,
package.el ought to check for a Makefile in the package directory, and
if it finds one, call make to build the package according to the rules
the package has defined. Though you would have to trust the package not
to do anything nasty.