Re: no byte-compilation in windows release

[Haden Pike <haden.pike@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Honestly, I think any user running Emacs is going to be able to report 
compilation errors.
Haden

On 10/21/2013 5:22 AM, Jarek Czekalski wrote:
> After listening to voices in "ems-interactive-p, a bug in 
> call-interactively-p" thread [1], I would like to answer here.
>
> W dniu 2013-10-12 00:05, Jarek Czekalski pisze:
> > I'll work on a script to do the compilation. Indeed it could be 
> > bundled with the installer. A one for windows, a batch file.
>
> Currently I don't think it is a good idea. How to handle compilation 
> errors? How to handle users reporting errors? Users are not developers 
> and may have troubles communicating about compilation errors. I don't 
> like the idea of forcing a user to compile computer program.
>
> Performance may be sacrificed. If compiled Emacspeak could be run by 
> computers 20 years ago, it can also be run now without compilation.
>
> If someone else wants to spends his time on a *robust* compilation 
> script, please contribute it to the project. For me it is too much 
> work and new problems for too little benefit.
>
> By the way. I am still not sure about the cause of the "cl-proclaim" 
> error when running compiled emacspeak. If I load "emacspeak.elc", I 
> get an error. No error with "emacspeak.el", which surprisingly is 
> called by the official script. But since compilation is put aside, I 
> don't find it necessary to dig that problem.
>
> [1] https://www.emacspeak.org/VCCS-archive/2013/msg00431.html
>
> Jarek
>
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