Re: CVS HEAD fails to build on OSX 10.4 (macterm.c broken?)

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

  >     Of course not.  But if the build does support the Carbon|w32|X11 
interface,
  >     then it makes sense to preload (mac|w32|x)-win.el even if the user will
  >     occasionally run with -nw in which case the file will not be used.
  > 
  > Why preload them if in some sessions they will not be used?
  > Is the purpose just to speed up startup?  If so, how much
  > difference does it make?

I don't know if it supposed to speed startup, but I suppose it's
probably some other reason. 

There's code in `command-line' that tries to make sure that the
WINDOW_SYSTEM-win file is loaded, and it errors out if it is not.
It then proceeds to call the x-handle-args (all the
term/*-win.el files provide such a function)
After that the function
WINDOW_SYSTEM-initialize-window-system. (all the term/*-win.el files
provide such a function now).

Again, this is just reading the code, not implying anything about why
any of these things are done in that way.

So what is the problem with having *-win loaded by default?
This discussion started because the port was having issues because
mac-win.el was requiring "url" for some of its functions. Those can be
moved to another file and the port can arrange to have the functions
in question properly loaded.