sync auctex 11.84: good news.

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Jan 30 17:55:50 EST 2008


David Kastrup writes:

 > If there is a problem with stuff being appended to an autoloads file
 > manually, it is conceivable that the AUCTeX build procedure might be
 > changed to process the respective stuff into autoload cookies in some
 > temporary file from which the normal autoload generation could pick them
 > up.

Well, I'm not too happy with the recent trend of substituting the
auto-autoloads.el file (which should contain only entry points) for
the custom-load.el file (which should contain the variable
declarations and only those) and the traditional $PACKAGE-hooks.el
file.  It has too often been abused in ways that create dependency
problems.

Is there a reason why this needs to be done?  I'm not unalterably
opposed to it, but most of the trouble seems to be caused by lazy
programming enabled by autoload abuse.




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