bug#45012: 27.1.50; Emacs 27.1 release archive missing emacs-module.h

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Sa., 12. Dez. 2020 um 19:57 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:55:46 +0100
> > Cc: 45012@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Quoting the commit message, the only reason given for not including
> > emacs-module.h is "it's too much hassle", without any explanation what
> > this "hassle" consists in and why it is "too much". (The release
> > tarball also includes .elc files, and those are a much bigger hassle
> > to build.) Rather, this decision shifts the hassle to the users.
>
> Emacs is not the only package that needs to be built to have the
> header files needed to build software against it.  Many libraries put
> their users through the same "hassles", so it isn't like Emacs is the
> odd one out here.

True, but I'm still wondering why it's a bigger hassle to generate
emacs-module.h than to build the .elc files.