Re: [elpa] master b7d8d3c 9/9: * fixtures/test/: Don't byte-compile

[Stefan Monnier]

> Apparently, tar uses gnulib's excluded_file_name function, which appears
> to delegate to fnmatch, which looks pretty complex to me.  I'm not aware
> of a "standalone" command providing an interface for this pattern
> matcher, but if one exists, maybe we could utilize that.

I think we could use sh's "case" patterns for that.

> Another option might be to generate an archive with tar and then use the
> list of included files to determine what to compile.  This command:
>
> $ tar -ch packages/context-coloring/ --exclude-vcs -X \
>   packages/context-coloring/.elpaignore | tar --list
>
> Produces this output:

> packages/context-coloring/
> packages/context-coloring/LICENSE
> packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-emacs-lisp.el
> packages/context-coloring/README.md
> packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-javascript.el
> packages/context-coloring/context-coloring.el
>
> We could filter down the ".el" files from there.

That might work as well, indeed.

BTW, given the current GNUmakefile, it's easy/natural to only test
.elpaignore matches for those files which end in .el and which don't yet
have a .elc file.  I expect this would be an important optimization to
make sure that "make" is fast when there's not much to (re)compile.


        Stefan