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bug#22213: 24.5; please allow specification or elimination of timestamp
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#22213: 24.5; please allow specification or elimination of timestamp in autoloads |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Jan 2016 02:41:49 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> But for autoloads.el in general this is not true because of the
>> existence of entry points such as update-file-autoloads which mean that
>> the autoloads file may be updated for some of the files it covers rather
>> than for all of them.
> I think there are a lot of cases (the majority?) where we know that this
> kind of partial update simply isn't going to happen.
Definitely. I've never seen entry points like update-file-autoloads
being used. I think autoloads.el would benefit greatly from getting rid
of such entry points (they significantly complicate the code, in my
experience, and they're very rarely used, if ever).
Stefan