From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reftex.el autoloads
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:18:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mvth6jsa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1udxaky.fsf@russet.org.uk>
> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:35:09 +0000
>
> ;; MD5 checksums are much better because they do not
> ;; change unless the file changes (so they'll be
> ;; equal on two different systems and will change
> ;; less often than time-stamps, thus leading to fewer
> ;; unneeded changes causing spurious conflicts), but
> ;; using time-stamps is a very useful optimization,
> ;; so we use time-stamps for the main autoloads file
> ;; (loaddefs.el) where we have special ways to
> ;; circumvent the "random change problem", and MD5
> ;; checksum in secondary autoload files where we do
> ;; not need the time-stamp optimization because it is
> ;; already provided by the primary autoloads file.
>
> So, it's a checksum (not a git commit which was my first thought) of the
> file contents (except in loaddefs.el when it's a timestamp). So it will
> update whenever reftex-auc changes whether the autoloads need to change
> or not.
Yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-11 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-10 11:03 reftex.el autoloads Phillip Lord
2015-12-10 14:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-10 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 18:52 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-10 22:07 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-11 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-11 15:38 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-10 22:03 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-11 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-11 15:35 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-11 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-12-11 17:08 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-11 17:46 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-11 18:20 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-11 20:03 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-12 18:24 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-12 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-12 18:56 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-12 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-12 21:15 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-13 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-13 20:33 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-13 21:50 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-13 22:11 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-15 19:33 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-16 17:15 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-17 2:15 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-17 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-17 16:07 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-17 21:31 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-18 16:39 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-18 17:12 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-18 20:55 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-18 21:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-18 21:51 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-19 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-18 22:05 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-19 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-19 13:24 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-20 12:41 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-20 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-20 18:41 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-20 18:37 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-20 23:04 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-21 0:24 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-21 10:32 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-22 10:55 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-21 6:45 ` martin rudalics
2015-12-21 10:31 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-18 20:45 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-18 21:22 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-20 18:41 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-20 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-21 0:22 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-20 23:15 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-21 0:29 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-21 10:52 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-17 5:57 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-17 12:07 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-11 17:34 ` David Engster
2015-12-11 17:39 ` Glenn Morris
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