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On 09/19/2015 02:22 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> As I've pointed out, these are exactly the same as
>
>      zcompile /Functions/Functions.zwc /Functions/*
>      FPATH=/Functions/Functions.zwc autoload +X -w /Functions/Functions.zwc
>
> Although the better practice would be to do
>
>      zcompile /Functions.zwc /Functions/*
>      FPATH=/Functions.zwc autoload +X -w /Functions.zwc

By gum it works if you get it exactly right:

-"zcompile ... (N-.:t)" ... or it barfs if there's a directory on the 
same path. Fussy fussy.
-"autoload +X -w ..." works with Sebastian's, but not with mine (which 
are all functions).
-"autoload -w ..." works with mine but not Sebastian's.
-"source miscfunctions" *before* calling an autoloaded function to have 
it work the first time.
-Append new dirs to FPATH or other things break.

> if not because of the way fpath is searched, then for the same reason that
> you shouldn't do
>
>      tar -c /Functions/Functions.tar /Functions/*
... and most importantly, follow this advice, or if you rerun zcompile 
where there's already a
.zwc, it rather dumbly tries to eat it's own tail and build itself into 
itself and nothing works.

I guess the zcompile of my dreams would be able to process both scripts 
and functions in one
go, and be able to see the functions in 'miscfunctions' regardless of 
the filename, and not
try to digest existing .zwc's, and not worry about directories. And the 
autoload of my dreams
would be able to pass all of it back every time.  Best to leave it to 
zsh internals it's too
fragile for anything else.  Apologies to the list for all this.