RE: Wordcode files and compinit

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> > Hm. The wordcode files already store the complete pathnames used when
> > calling zcompile. That could be changed to prepend $PWD to names not
> > starting with a slash. Then we could change the patch for
> > `autoload -w'
> > to make `autoload -w foo.zwc a b c' mark only a, b and c for
> > autoloading. And then we could make `autoload -mw foo.zwc
> > "*/Completion/Debian/*"'
> > mark only those functions for autoloading.
> 
> This won't help in case of completion.

It isn't possible any more anyway (because of `zcompile -c ...').

> We need the information from
> comments and comments are lost when compiling zsh code. With current way
> completion is initialized, functions must be present in source form. I
> am not happy about it.

I'm very happy with it. No way for anyone to give completion functions 
(or any functions) without also giving the source code.

> Keeping two form of the same function always
> increases the possibility of two getting out of sync.

Have you had a look at the zrecompile function I sent? It should make
this simple. Also, the wordcode files could be organised in a way that 
makes the source files be preferred when they are younger (just create 
a wordcode file for each completion directory named like the directory 
with a trailing `.zwc'). That would be less efficient than using one
big wordcode file, though (zrecompile can help with both approaches).
And anyway, the distributed functions will, from a user's or
administrator's point of view, be relatively stable.

Please also remember that in the part of my message which you didn't
quote I said that I hadn't thought about using wordcode files for a
package concept and that the above was just a quick thought...

I don't plan to think much more about the package stuff now, there are 
other things higher on my lsit, so only another quick thought: we
could enhance the wordcode file format to allow user's to store extra
information for each function...

Bye
 Sven


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