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Re: [O] [BUG] `org-load-noerror-mustsuffix´ is not defined, introduced


From: Bastien
Subject: Re: [O] [BUG] `org-load-noerror-mustsuffix´ is not defined, introduced by 5484a33b
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:40:46 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:

> Bastien writes:
>> (load "org-loaddefs.el" t t t) will *not* load gzipped version of
>> org-loaddefs.el.
>
> That's what I was trying to tell you and I consider that a bug.

I don't.

>> Please point at one distribution that actually distributes gzipped
>> autoloads files like loaddefs.el.
>
> Why should I?  

Please do send a link to a loaddefs.el.gz anywhere on the web or
anywhere in an Emacs package or provide a way to install Emacs which
generates loaddefs.el.gz.

> It is not at all illegal to do this, so we shouldn't be putting out code
> that actively prevents this option.  That Emacs currently doesn't do
> this has different reasons and looking at the code Emacs uses makes it
> abundantly clear that they've gone to great lengths to enable this for
> all files.  Currently it usually is faster to read non-compressed files
> from disk if they aren't larger than a single allocation unit of the
> underlying file system (which is why the files Emacs uses most often,
> that is .elc files and autoloads are kept uncompressed), but there are
> situations were there is a clear advantage of using compression and
> there are also situations where compressing _all_ files is the only
> thing left to do.

If you want to fix Emacs with respect to allowing loaddefs.el and
org-loaddefs.el compression, please do.

-- 
 Bastien



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