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Re: why keep generated lisp/international/uni-*.el in the repo?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: why keep generated lisp/international/uni-*.el in the repo? |
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Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:41:43 -0500 |
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> Why do we keep the generated files lisp/internation/uni-*.el, charprop.el
> in the repo, rather than generating them during bootstrap?
Good question.
> Is it just that "they don't change very often, and it makes bootstrap a
> tiny bit faster"?
Maybe it's only historical (the scripts to build them were run in an
ad-hoc manner). Or maybe they rely on tools which may not always be
available?
> On my machine, it takes me ~ 5 seconds to generate them;
> compared to ~ 5 mins for a bootstrap.
> It doesn't seem worth keeping them for that.
As a user of slow machines where bootstrap is rather in the half-hour
area, I think I wouldn't care about an extra 30 seconds, indeed.
Stefan