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Re: Warning on files byte-compiled with different versions
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John Wiegley |
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Re: Warning on files byte-compiled with different versions |
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Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:29:10 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) |
>>>>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> So, the answer is no, AFAICT. Second question, is there any reason why this
>> kind of functionality could not be added?
> Indeed. The byte-compiler could simply emit
> `(if (< emacs-major-version ,emacs-major-version)
> (message "This file was compiled for a more recent Emacs"))
> at the beginning of every file. IIRC we used to do something like that.
I'd personally appreciate having a warning like this, since it would let me
know that part of my environment is not built the way I thought it was.
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