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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.0-b32 is released
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>>>>> "Steven" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <mrb@eng.sun.com> writes:
Martin> No one except the maintainers should ever have to even know
Martin> about loaddefs.el, beyond the meaning of ;;;###autoload
Martin> comments in the .el files.

Steven> Unless one is building a new release from patches and the autoloads
Steven> have changed.  I wish very much to have a low-bandwidth, reliable
Steven> update mechanism, so ruling out patch updates entirely is not an
Steven> option.

Then the patch should contain the update to loaddefs.el.  It's not
*compiling* loaddefs.el that's the problem, it's generating it.  Beta
testers that get patch updates should run `make all-elc' or `make
beta' at some point, and that will update loaddefs.elc.

Steven> Maybe I can just supply a loaddefs.elc with the patch kit.

Anyhow, `make autoloads' is currently broken, and we should fix it
before release of 20.0.

Martin

