Re: why keep generated lisp/international/uni-*.el in the repo?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Why do we keep the generated files lisp/internation/uni-*.el, charprop.el
> in the repo, rather than generating them during bootstrap?

Good question.

> Is it just that "they don't change very often, and it makes bootstrap a
> tiny bit faster"?

Maybe it's only historical (the scripts to build them were run in an
ad-hoc manner).  Or maybe they rely on tools which may not always be
available?

> On my machine, it takes me ~ 5 seconds to generate them;
> compared to ~ 5 mins for a bootstrap.
> It doesn't seem worth keeping them for that.

As a user of slow machines where bootstrap is rather in the half-hour
area, I think I wouldn't care about an extra 30 seconds, indeed.


        Stefan