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.elcs should tell more about the .els they were compiled from

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: jasonr <at> gnu.org
Cc: 5361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5361: .elcs should tell more about the .els they were compiled from
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:27:58 +0800

>>>>> "JR" == Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> writes:
JR> If they are compiled by different versions of Emacs, then you can only
JR> safely assume they are different, even if the .el files they were
JR> compiled from are identical.
Yes but if the user wants to know "were the sources different?". If a
tiny bit of extra information were added to the boilerplate, then he
would have the answer instead of needing forensic analysis or something.

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