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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>>> "MS" == Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
MS> So OK, the mule files live in lisp/mule, I never realized that. Sorry
MS> about that ...
MS> I've bumped the recursion depth, but this adds something like 331
MS> stats to the startup time (according to Hrvoje).
MS> Now, some files in dumped-lisp.el already have the mule/ prefix
MS> explicit like so:
MS> (when-feature mule "mule/cyrillic") ; overloaded in leim/quail
MS> Any objection against doing the same for the rest of them and
MS> reverting the change?
Martin> Yes. I object.
Martin> It's tradtional that all directories containing .el files are on
Martin> the load-path. For example, it's natural to do (interactively)
Martin> M-x load-library RET FOO RET
Martin> and expect FOO.elc to be loaded.
Martin> Although having a nested structure like you propose is
Martin> basically a good design (it's like C #include directives), it
Martin> breaks compatibility with The Way Things Have Always Been
Martin> Done, so don't do it. lisp/term/ can be an exception, since
Martin> nobody ever cares about the lisp here.
Martin> It's possible you would also break things like find-function,
Martin> i.e. any function that might examine load-path.
OK, I can see that. I hate the fact, however, that mule/ lives under
lisp/ --- it's not a true reflection of the dependencies here. It
would be much more natural, IMHO, to have a mule-lisp/ directory
alongside lisp/.
Martin> That's not to say that file stat optimization isn't important.
Martin> I suggest the following design:
Martin> Add lisp/ with depth 1 to your list of lisp hierarchies.
Martin> (when (featurep 'mule)
Martin> Also add lisp/mule as another hierarchy of depth 1.
Martin> I haven't looked at the code to see how hard this would be to
Martin> implement.
Don't worry about that---I'll do it, but I'd like to get it right.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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