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bug#52400: [PATCH] Don't generate separate autoload file for htmlfontify
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#52400: [PATCH] Don't generate separate autoload file for htmlfontify.el |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:45:35 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> But it isn't cruft. You tend to declare something "cruft" too easily.
This file is the result of an old optimization (some autoloads) that
were subsequently cleaned up. (The non-optimized version would have
been to just require hfy-cmap.el.) However, the clean-up didn't go far
enough, and thus we ended up with a file that I think can be accurately
described as cruft.
> No, we don't. Please don't consider cruft anything that you think is
> not right; there's more than one way to skin a fish. People who
> worked on Emacs before us weren't exactly incompetent, you know.
I don't think saying that some things have outgrown their usefulness or
could be done better reflects negatively on previous authors.
> Just get used to it being there, I say. It doesn't do any harm,
> although you seem to think it does.
The "harm" here is exactly having to get used to it. IOW, you may argue
that this is a very minor cleanup, but on the other hand the cost of
doing nothing is also non-zero. Hackers will have to look at this for
another couple of decades, or until someone else thinks to install a
patch like the one I wrote.
However, since you seem to feel strongly about it, I won't insist.