From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Has eval-and-compile changed in emacs 27? Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:36:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13565"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 26 07:37:29 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lFWki-0003Rf-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 07:37:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60804 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFWkh-0007Iy-Vk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:37:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFWk9-0006tJ-Fu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFWk9-0002ri-4x; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lFWk8-00086C-70; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:36:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:28:30 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265661 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Oh, I see: it's the (eval-when-compile (require 'url-parse)) because > apparently `url-parse` now ends up loading `json` somehow. It's not a good thing for a package to load more other packages unnecessarily. If it happens just once, it is not a big deal. But if many libraries do it, it could lead to a cascade of bloat. Does url-parse need json all the time, or only in rare special cases? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)