Re: no byte-compilation in windows release

[Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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