Re: pkg-autoloads.el vs. pkg-loaddefs.el

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> May an approach like `require-with-check' be used here?  Then, the
>> reloading only occurs when there is a potential mixing of package
>> versions.
>
> Could be, tho I'm not sure exactly what "an approach like
> `require-with-check`" would look like.

Something like

(defun package-activate-1...
...

(let ((autoload-feature (intern (format "%s-autoloads"
                             (package-desc-name pkg-desc)))))
  (when (and (featurep autoload-feature)
             (require-with-check autoload-feature nil 'reload))
    ;; If pkg-autoload.el is already loaded from a different path,
    ;; reload the package.
    (warn ...)
    (setq reload t)))
    
(when reload
  (package--reload-previously-loaded pkg-desc))
  
(with-demoted-errors "Error loading autoloads: %s"
  (load (package--autoloads-file-name pkg-desc) nil t))


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