From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: reftex.el autoloads Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:18:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83mvth6jsa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h9jqo9a5.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83wpsm9skk.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4d22c7f.fsf@russet.org.uk> <831tata1mg.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1udxaky.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449850747 8713 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2015 16:19:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 11 17:18:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a7QOu-0001GC-Rg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:18:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7QOu-0002uc-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:18:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7QOp-0002s0-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:18:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7QOm-0000cO-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:18:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:48000) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7QOl-0000ba-TR; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:18:24 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NZ700J00BKTC400@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:15:17 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NZ7009ZGBTHCH80@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:15:17 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87d1udxaky.fsf@russet.org.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196122 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: Glenn Morris , > 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.