bug#64985: 29.1; [PATCH] Byte-compilation of packages via package-vc doesn't correctly handle .elpaignore wildcards

[Jim Porter]

On 8/1/2023 9:10 AM, Jim Porter wrote:
> There might be another way to do this, e.g. so that we could optimize 
> the regexp, but I'm not sure if Emacs has anything to optimize a list of 
> *regexp* alternatives (rather than a list of *string* alternatives). I 
> tested out 'rx' too, but no luck there either. This seemed like the best 
> I could do without more extensive changes, which I wanted to avoid for 
> the 29 branch.

Note: 'rx' (well, 'rx-to-string') would work here too, but it didn't 
optimize the list of regexp alternatives, and I found the code to be 
harder to read (though I could just be doing it in a clumsy way).