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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recognizing obsolete external package versions
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:15:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IK4rL-0006Xp-2l@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tejibt7kw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:15:11 -0400)

That code seems basically right
except that I would rather it avoid calling eval.
It should give the name of a variable, and the values that are bad.

I think it would be better to check at the beginning of loading the file
rather than at the end.  That is possible by searching for "(defvar VARIABLE",
evaluating the sexp that comes next, and looking at its value.

That would require detecting the file by its name rather than by
a feature it provides.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-12  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-31 20:22 Recognizing obsolete external package versions Richard Stallman
2007-08-10 21:15 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-10 21:25   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-08-10 22:18     ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-11  0:24       ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-12  4:15   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-08-12  4:50     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-13  0:51       ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-13  1:54         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-14  0:28           ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14  7:52             ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-13  7:31     ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-14  0:28       ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-13  9:56     ` Kim F. Storm
2007-08-14  0:28       ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-08  4:54 Richard Stallman

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