From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: autoload cookies for defcustoms Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:56:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <2DC911234A9B4A6ABD34459FB8C26C1C@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264388251 23119 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2010 02:57:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:57:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Emacs-Devel devel' To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 03:57:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NZF8N-0005XA-45 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:57:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZF89-00034J-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:56:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZF83-00034E-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZF7z-00033N-Kv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56136 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZF7z-00033J-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:14331 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZF7x-0001W0-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:56:35 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqgEAKGWXEvO+LMp/2dsb2JhbACBRtQQhDsEik4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,336,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="54474243" Original-Received: from 206-248-179-41.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.179.41]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 24 Jan 2010 21:56:15 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DF0AAB4235; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:56:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <2DC911234A9B4A6ABD34459FB8C26C1C@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:31:28 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120332 Archived-At: > Just curious. Is there a policy, for the Lisp code distributed with > Emacs, about using autoload cookies for defcustoms? If so, what is it? AFAIK the policy is: "don't do it". It all too often introduces all kinds of nasty problems. More to the point, I welcome patches that remove tham. Stefan