From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary
<jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 21:23:36 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d81a8f79-236a-4ef7-a7b9-229999bff7e3@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr1vrf91r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > (provide 'my-feature) ; Ignored by byte compiler,
> > ; evaluated by 'load'.
> > (require 'my-feature) ; Evaluated by byte compiler.
>
> Yes, it used to be popular. But it is the telltale sign of a recursive
> dependency between packages, which is something better avoided (just
> like `advice` is better avoided: we *do* want to support it because
> it's really handy when you really need it, but don't abuse it).
>
> So please don't go there unless you have to.
Not sure what you're suggesting. Are you saying
that text should be removed from the manual?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-11 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-09 15:02 "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-09 15:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-09 16:47 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 2:19 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-10 15:05 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-10 17:13 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 1:02 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 1:08 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-11 1:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 4:23 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-05-11 4:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 6:57 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-11 15:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 15:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-12 0:59 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-12 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12 3:50 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-12 15:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-13 1:43 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-13 2:05 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-13 2:27 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-13 2:33 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-13 2:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-13 3:02 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-16 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 12:39 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-16 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 15:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-12 15:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 15:13 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-12 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-11 3:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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