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27.1.50; Emacs 27.1 release archive missing emacs-module.h

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 45012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45012: 27.1.50; Emacs 27.1 release archive missing emacs-module.h
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:02:59 +0100

Am Sa., 12. Dez. 2020 um 19:57 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
>
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:55:46 +0100
> > Cc: 45012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Quoting the commit message, the only reason given for not including
> > emacs-module.h is "it's too much hassle", without any explanation what
> > this "hassle" consists in and why it is "too much". (The release
> > tarball also includes .elc files, and those are a much bigger hassle
> > to build.) Rather, this decision shifts the hassle to the users.
>
> Emacs is not the only package that needs to be built to have the
> header files needed to build software against it.  Many libraries put
> their users through the same "hassles", so it isn't like Emacs is the
> odd one out here.

True, but I'm still wondering why it's a bigger hassle to generate
emacs-module.h than to build the .elc files.

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