Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
>> Cc: akrl@sdf.org,  corwin@bru.st,  drew.adams@oracle.com,  
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 20:25:17 +0100
>> 
>> > I cannot reproduce this.  How exactly did you load strings.elc?
>> 
>> M-x load-file
>> 
>> with (load-file "d:/tmp/Corwin/strings.elc") it isn't working either on
>> my machine!?
>
> Because you loaded a .elc file, explicitly.  Try this instead:
>
>   M-x load-library RET d:/tmp/Corwin/strings RET

Indeed!

Warning (comp): strings.el:233:10: Warning: `psetq' is an obsolete alias (as of 
27.1); use `cl-psetq' instead. Disable showing Disable logging
Warning (comp): strings.el:533:12: Warning: `interactive-p' is an obsolete 
function (as of 23.2); use `called-interactively-p' instead. Disable showing 
Disable logging
Warning (comp): strings.el:588:61: Warning: sit-for called with 3 arguments, 
but accepts only 1-2 Disable showing Disable logging
Warning (comp): strings.el:614:40: Warning: `user-variable-p' is an obsolete 
function (as of 24.3); use `custom-variable-p' instead. Disable showing Disable 
logging
Warning (comp): strings.el:762:10: Warning: `interactive-p' is an obsolete 
function (as of 23.2); use `called-interactively-p' instead. Disable showing 
Disable logging
Warning (comp): strings.el:495:10: Warning: the function `insert-string' is not 
known to be defined. Disable showing Disable logging
Warning (comp): strings.el:173:4: Warning: the function 
`tap-define-aliases-wo-prefix' is not known to be defined. Disable showing 
Disable logging

[Nitpicking:] Would you consider it an omission that load-library is
triggering a compilation but (load-file ".elc") not?  (No, probably not
because load-file would need to consider files which are not directly
submitted.)

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Thanks a lot

       Dieter