From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
'Emacs-Devel devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: autoload cookies for defcustoms
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:20:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jjoccjd6xn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4n8z3it.fsf@gmail.com> (Wojciech Meyer's message of "Mon\, 30 Aug 2010 13\:30\:34 +0100")
Wojciech Meyer wrote:
> toplevel code evaluated). It is up to maintainers what to do with the
> patch, it just shows `defcustoms' with `autoload'. I might refine it if
> somebody comes up with rules to follow.
You can't really come up with a rule. The problem is often historical.
People get used to using these variables in their .emacs without
loading the associated packages. Removing the autoloads breaks their
.emacs. And there's no compatible way to get from here to there (eg
you cannot mark an autoload obsolete, not that anyone would notice
anyway).
Some examples of such problems are
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00956.html
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2150
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-30 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-23 18:31 autoload cookies for defcustoms Drew Adams
2010-01-23 20:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-23 20:38 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-25 2:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-25 5:13 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-25 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-25 20:36 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-26 2:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-26 3:12 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-26 11:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-29 9:46 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-08-29 19:11 ` Glenn Morris
2010-08-30 12:30 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-08-30 15:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-30 23:20 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2010-08-30 23:52 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-08-31 3:32 ` Andy Wingo
2010-08-31 8:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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