bug#38072: when `byte-compile-file' finds out that a file is `no-byte-compile', it ignores `load' parameter

[Andrea Corallo]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> FWIW, I find the "and load" feature to be a mistake: the function should
>> return whether or not it successfully compiled the file, but shouldn't
>> offer to load the result, since the callers can just as easily do
>> it themselves (and then they can easily control what happens when
>> compilation did not succeed).
>> So, I'd suggest we deprecate that "feature" rather than try and decide
>> which behavior is better.
>
> It's pretty convenient when running interactively though.  I've tried
> using `C-u M-x byte-compile-file' (instead of my usual eval-buffer) for
> the last couple of days, and I kind of like getting both
> byte-compilation and load-file in one command.
>
> But if we do deprecate this, is there a better alternative that we can
> point users to?  Should we just tell them to run two commands?

Hi Stefan,

would having the load performed by `emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load' an
option?

Ciao

  Andrea