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

[Andrea Corallo]

Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

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>>> Anyway I was thinking if it wouldn't be correct to emit also a warning
>>> if libgccjit is not available.  This condition could prevent some
>>> package to work as expected (ex evil-mode IIRC) so might be worth to
>>> inform the user that and emacs compiled with native-comp is being run
>>> without libgccjit being available.
>>
>> I'm not sure I see the usefulness of such a warning.  If Emacs works
>> correctly regardless, the warning could annoy.  So I tend to think we
>> should introduce the warning only if enough users complain that Emacs
>> silently does something they'd prefer to know about.
>
> I think it might be useful for two reasons:
>
> 1- let the user know that a native compiled Emacs is being run without
>    access to libgccjit, not only it might not function as expected but
>    most likely I guess that if the user compiled a native compiled Emacs
>    he wants to have it working with native code.  So in general I guess
>    it might be informative.
>
> 2- help us identifying the issue when a bug is opened because of it, if
>    we suspect that's the problem we can ask the user to have a look to
>    the warnings.
>
> But indeed I'm not sure it's worth of so I asked.
>
> An alternative to point two would be having a trace of this in M-x
> report-emacs-bug.

Thinking about I think this might be a good idea anyway.

  Andrea