Re: Purpose of jde-autoloads

ELPA does this. During development, I use M-x update-directory-autoloads
directly. I'm increasingly trying to load my own development files via
autoloads rather than through "require" or I forget to put the autoload
cookies in.

Phil

Paul Landes <[email protected]> writes:

> I also like autoloads the way they are. As someone mentioned, an autoloads.el
> file is created from all ;;;###autoload found in all files.
>
> When the package is installed, can't we invoke some elisp code to call the
> method that creates this autoloads file? We can't be the first to do things
> this way in packages.
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Stephen Leake <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Przemysław Wojnowski <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>> The only function I would 
>>> see in autoloads would be something like this:
>>> (defun jde-start ()
>>>   "Start JDEE."
>>>  (require 'jde))
>>> 
>>> Rationale: If someone would install JDEE (e.g. from elpa) it wouldn't slow down 
>>> Emacs startup. But user could load it anytime using M-x jde-start when s/he 
>>> would like to open a Java project.
>> 
>> I have another problem with this; it's backward incompatible. We'll get
>> lots of (well, some :) complaints "why doesn't JDE work anymore"?
>> 
>> It's also not the way Emacs packages are expected to work. Once you
>> install an ELPA package, it should be transparent; open a java file,
>> and JDE is there. We don't want users wondering;
>> 
>>    "Why isn't this jde command working? Oh, right, I forgot 'jde-start'".
>> 
>> The minimum set of autoloaded commands is the set that are likely to be
>> the first JDE command people use. That's at least jde-mode, and probably
>> a few others (I haven't used it enough yet to tell).
>> 
>> Additional autoloads can be used to reduce the initial load time. As you
>> rightly point out, the need for that is less these days than it used to
>> be.
>> 
>> But the commandment "don't 'fix' what isn't broken" is still a good one,
>> here.
>> 
>> -- 
>> -- Stephe
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