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Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads. |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Dec 2015 18:18:45 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:54:04 -0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Some code out there that expects the value to be a string might become
> > broken by such a change, I think.
>
> I doubt whether there is any such code that will break.
It doesn't matter. Let's not make changes that gratuitously break
backward compatibility. A fixed string is good enough to serve this
use case, so no need to make it nil.
> No code uses the variable within Emacs itself; I just checked.
I plan on adding it to the bug report, where it was before a recent
change to emacs-version. This information is sometimes very important
when working on bugs.
> We should also obsolete the variable, while we're at it. There's a comment to
> that effect before the variable. Really, code should not be using
> emacs-build-system.
It's important information in some cases, and I don't plan to remove
it any time soon, sorry.
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., (continued)
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/20
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., John Wiegley, 2015/12/22
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Philipp Stephani, 2015/12/23
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/23
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Philipp Stephani, 2015/12/23
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/23
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Philipp Stephani, 2015/12/23
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/23
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/23
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/24
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Philipp Stephani, 2015/12/27
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/27
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/27
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/29
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29