Re: [ANNOUNCE] Updated Packages in Pre-Release 2003 Jan 12

Ville> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 10:07, James A. Crippen wrote: Yes (if you're talking about auto-autoloads in 21.5). But not for a few days. No. By the nature of things, auto-autoloads files can't be conveniently require'd. Furthermore, since the auto-autoloads files are intended only to read once, at initialization, something is very wrong if they somehow get read twice. Think about it this way: wouldn't it be nice if C were safe enough that you could have a continuable assert macro? That's basically what's happening here: an assert. But Lisp (even the dreadfully primitive version known as Emacs Lisp) is safe enough that most of the time you can continue from an assert, and usefully, too. I'm surprised somebody with your address and .sig isn't way ahead of me. Ville> I assume you're talking about 21.5.x; The autoload mechanism is badly broken in 21.5, I have a patch forthcoming. It'll take a week or so, but it's mostly worked out. Ville> I don't see them with 21.4.11 whereas I do with 21.5.10. Ville> But I don't see much use to those errors either. You would if your carefully advice'd function got overwritten by an autoload form. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.