From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com>
Cc: 2061@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2061: 23.0.60; Add preference to force load of Elisp files when they are newer than corresponding byte-compiled file
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:06:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0901271806x2f92aaady8e97a4aef6002ccc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18815.11809.968195.804775@hungover.brentg.com>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 16:54, Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem relates to when and how to notify the user that the stale
> .elc file is the one being loaded. During development, I just
> `eval-buffer' repeatedly on a .el file, always unaware that there is a
> stale .elc file lying in wait to confuse me the next time I reload the
> entire Emacs process/session.
If you're going to modify/test the package with eval-buffer, you
should make sure there's no .elc sitting around.
> At init time, I only get a warning,
> among a ton of other benign warnings and messages, and that one
> critical warning is therefore not seen (of course, it is impractical
> to ask the user to read all of those messages).
As you know, that's trivially fixed:
(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook
(lambda ()
(with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Messages*")
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward "[Ss]ource file .*? newer" nil t)
(warn "%s" (buffer-substring (line-beginning-position)
(line-end-position)))))))
> Add the following logic to the C `load' function:
>
> Before loading either the .el or .elc file, test for the condition
> where the .el file is newer than the .elc file. If it is, then do
> the following:
>
> See if the `load-hook-stale-byte-compile-handlers' hook variable
> is set to non-nil. When it is non-nil, run the hook variable with
> `run-hook-with-args-until-success'. Each function the user has
> added to that hook variable would do any logic s/he wishes,
> including in my case to popup a minibuffer prompt asking what to
> do. When the hook function thus called returns a 'prefer-el-file
> symbol, `load' then loads the .el file and ignores the .elc
> file. Likewise, when the hook function returns the
> 'prefer-elc-file symbol, then load the .elc file but give no
> warning message and ignore the .el file. When nil is returned from
> the `run-hook-with-args-until-success' function, just load the
> .elc file and produce the stale file warning message as is done
> today (i.e., preserve existing behavior).
That would work, but it is IMHO too much (interface, not code)
complexity for little gain. In most cases, having a .elc older than
its corresponding .el is a bug (or, let's call it, a temporary
situation), so getting a warning to remind the user about fixing it
seems much more economical.
That said, sometimes I would've liked to have a hook that runs when a
file is loaded; or the ability to defadvice Fload (you can, except
that Fload is also called from C code, for example for autoloads).
> I have tried doing that, but found it unworkable in practice, as
> byte-compiling upon each save ended up chewing up too much time during
> development (the byte-compile-upon-every-save penalty). Consider that
> I save frequently. :)
I didn't mean to byte-compile on saving, I meant to byte-compile on
eval-buffer (or whatever method you use to test your code).
> But that is a hack, so I am now trying to get the root problem
> addressed in the C code where it exists.
I agree that greater control over the loading process could sometimes
be useful; but I don't think this is a compelling use case.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 2:19 bug#2061: 23.0.60; Add preference to force load of Elisp files when they are newer than corresponding byte-compiled file Brent Goodrick
2009-01-26 4:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-27 15:08 ` Brent Goodrick
2009-01-26 8:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-27 15:54 ` Brent Goodrick
2009-01-28 2:06 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2009-01-28 8:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-02-02 16:07 ` Brent Goodrick
2009-01-26 16:31 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-27 15:56 ` Brent Goodrick
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-27 0:49 Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 18:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-03 9:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-03 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
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