From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/nt/INSTALL,v
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:40:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uiqyoa20l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0804110346y7e838fbfi2b8bf6b7cda83774@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:46:03 +0200
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > > Hm. I would've said that the whole point of cvs-update is to be more
> > > correct than recompile; else, why not simply use recompile, which is
> > > faster?
> >
> > Because without the other prerequisites of cvs-update, especially
> > autoloads, you will have a buggy Emacs.
>
> I thought that was implied in "to be more correct than recompile" ;-)
It is more correct, but it does not aim to be absolutely correct. It
is okay for it to fail in rare situations, if that saves a significant
amount of time.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-11 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1Jjscj-0002sL-1T@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
2008-04-10 9:36 ` [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/nt/INSTALL,v Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 9:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-10 17:53 ` Recommended build procedure [was Re: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/nt/INSTALL, v] Glenn Morris
2008-04-10 19:52 ` [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/nt/INSTALL,v Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-10 20:21 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-10 22:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-11 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-11 9:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-11 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-11 10:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-11 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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