Subject: Re: bug#55811: 29.0.50; No flymake diagnostics for no-byte-compile files

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:42:29 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Well, there are some.  If you open, say, lisp/net/tramp-loaddefs.el,
>> you'll get a whole bunch of compilation errors, and you don't want to
>> see those, I think?
>
> Why not?

Because they can't be byte-compiled -- that's why they're marked as
such.  :-/

(There's a separate bug report about that somewhere.)

So we're really using no-byte-compile for two reasons: 1) To say that we
don't think it's useful to byte-compile something or 2) because we know
that it's impossible.

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