Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Samstag, dem 15.10.2022 um 15:56 +0000 schrieb Andrea Corallo:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > The problem is that I can't meaningfully choose the "I don't want
> > > JIT
> > > for stuff I haven't AOT'd" option, especially not combined with
> > > "but I
> > > do want to load what I have AOT'd".
> > 
> > I haven't followed the Guix part of this thread in detail, but I
> > thought
> > I'd just note that Emacs 29 now has the
> > `inhibit-automatic-native-compilation' variable and and
> > `EMACS_INHIBIT_AUTOMATIC_NATIVE_COMPILATION' environment variables,
> > so
> > this is implemented.
> 
> I thought this change was just into master "for discussion", are we
> already suggesting users to integrate it in their infrastructures? 
> BTW AFAIU this usecase was already supported in 28 using
> `native-comp-deferred-compilation'.
The deferred-compilation switch still ends up writing to $HOME, which
the new inhibit one doesn't.  Should the former be deprecated in favor
of the latter or should it simply take up its meaning?