Subject: bug#2577: 23.0.91; startup.el should choose .emacs ahead of .emacs.elc if .emacs is newer

From: Alex <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:44:40 +0100

Following on from discussion at:

http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/compiling-at-emacs-startup

I humbly submit the following bug report:

From:  <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: 23.0.91; startup.el should choose .emacs ahead of .emacs.elc if .emacs is newer
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Currently startup.el warns if .emacs.elc is newer than .emacs however
this hides subtle bugs if people don't carefully watch their logs/mode
line during startup. Although many people have clever auto-compile
magic every tiome they save .emacs this often break down when they
pull in updates via SCMs.

It should still warn, but by default it should go with the newest
version.

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