Re: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/nt/INSTALL,v

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:46:03 +0200
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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.