Re: Next release

[Stefan Monnier]

>> IIRC, the issue is that the multi-tty feature introduced the
>> possibility that an Emacs session that starts using X11 (resp tty)
>> may later be asked to open a tty (resp X11) terminal.  But loading
>> *-win.el after Emacs has been running for a while apparently
>> introduced problems, so the code was changed to eagerly load all the
>> term/*-win.el files that may be used later on during the session.
>> At that point, since x-win.el is loaded regardless of whether we
>> only use X11 or tty, it is a perfect candidate for preloading.  Why
>> is that a problem?

> Thanks for the explanation.  So, they are not necessary to be
> preloaded at the bootstrap stage?

IIUC, they do not have to be preloaded, no.


        Stefan