From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20968: 25.0.50; Be able to specify the output directory for `byte-compile-file' Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 17:35:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83pp46wu2z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <23829743-922e-4304-8ab3-b762b8193860@default> <74y4iytdjg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83pp49zb03.fsf@gnu.org> <83egkpyvvd.fsf@gnu.org> <83si94xrcn.fsf@gnu.org> <55991ADF.8070208@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436106982 16600 80.91.229.3 (5 Jul 2015 14:36:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 14:36:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20968@debbugs.gnu.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 05 16:36:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBl1g-0003Vs-5u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 16:36:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBl1f-00034o-A3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45817) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBl1b-00034a-KY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:36:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBl1X-00053E-Jg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:39543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBl1X-00052V-FN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBl1W-0001Pm-U0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:36:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 14:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20968 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20968-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20968.14361069505416 (code B ref 20968); Sun, 05 Jul 2015 14:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20968) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jul 2015 14:35:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40989 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBl1J-0001PH-LC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:50328) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBl1F-0001Ox-Im for 20968@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:35:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NR000900QVTPN00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 20968@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 17:35:39 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NR0009A4R7ELM70@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 17:35:39 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <55991ADF.8070208@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:104729 Archived-At: > Cc: 20968@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 14:54:07 +0300 > > On 07/04/2015 11:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > What's more, I don't understand why people use those places. The > > Emacs forums are quite friendly, so there should be no reason for them > > to avoid us. > > An average user doesn't really want to talk to someone. They want to > find an answer to their question, and maybe a bunch of settings to apply > to their init file. To get a question answered, they must first ask it, exactly like they would on gnu.emacs.help. Then they need to read the answers, and perhaps comment on them, exactly as they would on gnu.emacs.help. > The stack-foo platform is extremely geared towards the ease of finding > existing answers (via editing, tagging and voting), or contributing an > answer that's comprehensive and easy to find (without searching through > all the messages in a mailing list discussion). All our mailing lists are indexed by Google, exactly like stack-foo. > You can't beat that. It sounds like we don't want to, or have given up in advance. In that case, the result is known up front.