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24.5; please allow specification or elimination of timestamp in autoloads

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Message #41 received at 22213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>, 22213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22213: 24.5;
 please allow specification or elimination of timestamp in autoloads
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 02:41:49 -0500

>> But for autoloads.el in general this is not true because of the
>> existence of entry points such as update-file-autoloads which mean that
>> the autoloads file may be updated for some of the files it covers rather
>> than for all of them.
> I think there are a lot of cases (the majority?) where we know that this
> kind of partial update simply isn't going to happen.

Definitely.  I've never seen entry points like update-file-autoloads
being used.  I think autoloads.el would benefit greatly from getting rid
of such entry points (they significantly complicate the code, in my
experience, and they're very rarely used, if ever).


        Stefan

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