From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>,
23692@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23692: 25.1.50; Package.el gets confused if file has no autoloads (could be a bug in update-directory-autoloads)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:40:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7fdsvcfb.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vur3c1aqgi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:33:49 -0400")
> i) I guess now autoload will sometimes not create any output file.
I think this shouldn't happen. Both in the sense that it would be
a bug, and that my understanding of the code makes me think it
won't happen. We create the file before we even try to update it.
> ii) I wonder what this means for reproducibility of the loaddefs file.
Good question.
> iii) Would applying a move-if-change style logic be better?
Could be, indeed. My only motivation for the original patch was to
avoid repeatedly re-dumping Emacs even when no significant change had
happened. I wrote the patch years ago, and at that point the
time-stamps were always different, so the buffer's content was
definitely changed, tho in ways which had no impact on the dump, so
"move-if-changed" was not an option.
Now that we avoid time-stamps maybe we can actually compare the buffer's
content with the file and skip saving if it's identical.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-14 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-03 22:03 bug#23692: 25.1.50; Package.el gets confused if file has no autoloads (could be a bug in update-directory-autoloads) Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-06-03 22:50 ` Glenn Morris
2016-06-04 4:34 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-06-06 17:24 ` Glenn Morris
2016-06-09 1:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-13 18:33 ` Glenn Morris
2016-06-14 0:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-10-10 9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-11 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-11 20:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 22:17 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
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