From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: loaddefs and provide
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:10:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6mmb4i7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmy337xpo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:58:48 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> * calendar/calendar.el (cal-loaddefs):
>>> * calendar/diary-lib.el (diary-loaddefs):
>>> * calendar/holidays.el (hol-loaddefs):
>>> * eshell/esh-module.el (esh-groups):
>>> * mh/mh-e.el (mh-loaddefs): Load rather than require.
>
>> The removal of the provide statement from autoload-rubric was
>> undocumented (it's a separate issue from generated-autoload-feature).
>
>> If it was unintentional, I would prefer to put this back to how it was.
>
> I hesitated, but in the end, given the fact that we now use files whose
> non-directory names may clash, I think that auto-generating feature
> names from files is too risky and not worth the trouble (and
> generated-autoload-feature is not a solution since it is not at the
> right place, and actually there's no right place for it).
This is unwise. There are several third-party packages that depend on
the old behavior (i.e. having a provide statement in the generated
loaddefs file). The third-party version of CEDET is one example.
This change causes too much incompatibility. We should revert it, at
least for the 23.2 release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1N5Tis-0002pY-NM@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
2009-11-04 3:12 ` loaddefs and provide Glenn Morris
2009-11-04 3:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-04 8:37 ` Glenn Morris
2009-11-04 8:46 ` Glenn Morris
2009-11-04 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-04 19:11 ` Glenn Morris
2009-11-04 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-04 17:10 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-11-04 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-10 2:11 ` Glenn Morris
2009-11-10 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-10 18:40 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-04 9:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
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