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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 16:56:58 -0600
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > [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.)
> 
> IMO, no.  It's a feature:  when we specify an extension we get exactly
> what we ask for, when we specify without any extension we get the
> default behavior of favoring the most compiled version available,
> creating the ELN if we can when we have an ELC but no ELN.

Indeed.  Without that, there would be no easy way of asking Emacs to
load a .elc file without natively-compiling it and replacing the .elc
with a .eln.