From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, 4446@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4446: remove ###autoload from ediff-hook.el
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:22:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbplb3u00.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909161118.n8GBIPDV012011@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:18:25 -0700 (PDT)")
> The ###autoload in ediff-hook.el is not needed, this file is in the
> dumped image, so the autoload's only effect is to make loaddefs.el
> bigger and increase the size of the dumped image.
> The comment in the file says that the autoload is needed for XEmacs, but
> that's not a good reason to keep it in the Emacs CVS, it's a one line
> change to a file that almost never changes.
> OK to remove the autoload line?
Actually, it reminds me that I faced a similar situation recently.
I did remove the autoload cookie, but in retrospect I think it was the
wrong thing to do. We should instead teach our build system to skip
preloaded files when creating the loaddefs.el file.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-16 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-09-16 11:18 ` bug#4446: remove ###autoload from ediff-hook.el Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-16 11:32 ` Leo
2009-09-16 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-09-16 18:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-17 7:14 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-17 18:11 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-17 21:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-24 3:28 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-24 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-24 20:27 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-24 22:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-25 18:16 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-25 21:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-26 19:18 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-29 3:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 3:56 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-29 21:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 4:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-06 3:20 ` bug#4446: marked as done (remove ###autoload from ediff-hook.el) Emacs bug Tracking System
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