Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: relint (ex-trawl)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:01:43 -0400
> 
> > My point was that I don't think we should have in our Makefiles
> > targets that require tools which are neither expected to be installed
> > on many systems nor come with the Emacs repository.
> 
> What's the harm?

The harm is that it's IME annoying to invoke a target only to be
presented with some error message which at best says some file or
program is missing.

What's the use of having a target that you cannot run?

> And it'll be a lot more convenient than "a small Makefile in the
> package with a lint-emacs-regexps target" since that Makefile would
> be hidden inside ~/.emacs.d/elpa and would have to be told which
> Emacs you want to run and/or which source files you want to check.

Nothing that cannot be solved by an Emacs command, right?