Re: package.el: bytecode portability across emacs versions

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Emacs is not well-equipped to have source and byte code in different
>     directories.  For example, it messes with the load path order: Emacs
>     will prefer loading an .el file in an earlier place in the load-path
>     over a .elc file in a later place.
>
> That is not a problem for this approach, because the directory for the
> specific version always comes before the version-independent directory.

You are talking about "the directory".  load-path establishes an
_order_, and we can have repetitive elements in this order when the
user installs his own version of some packages intended to override
the system version.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum