Re: Automatic bootstrap

[Richard M Stallman]

    > My proposal does not require it to contain anything,
    > so it could be empty.

    Why use the extension ".el" then?  It seems misleading.

Because bootstrapping generates .elc files from all the .el files.
It will do this one just like the rest.
Making this a .el file is therefore natural.

Likewise, a release comes with the .elc files,
so it will come with this one, and that will prevent
bootstrapping when people build the release.