Re: sh.exe needed to bootstrap on Windows?

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think the problem happens because of this change:
>
>     2007-07-16  Dan Nicolaescu  <address@hidden>
>
>           * vc-hooks.el (vc-handled-backends): Move BZR later in the list.
>
> Dan, can you explain why this change was made?
>   


Why would reordering a list inside a defcustom, or updating the :version
property of that defcustom (which I don't think should have been done,
unless the previous :version property was a mistake) cause the shell to
be invoked when byte compiling?