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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
Cc: 49786@debbugs.gnu.org, ioannis.kappas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#49786: 28.0.50; [PATCH] package-install shouldn't change default-directory
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:09:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tukbovz7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tukbh6vo.fsf@dick> (message from dick on Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:41:15 -0400)

> From: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ioannis Kappas <ioannis.kappas@gmail.com>,  49786@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:41:15 -0400
> 
> EZ> The 'mac' encoding is documented in the ELisp manual.  Please don't remove
> EZ> its testing here.
> 
> Ah, so it does.  I'm rather content to let the OS9 diehards stew in
> their own obsolescence.  There's no telling what else doesn't work on an OS
> that was last released in the twentieth century.  But it's impossible to
> disabuse the maintainer of the maintainer ethos: "preservation above-all" [1].

The 'mac' encoding is not about that old OS, it's about documents
written on that OS.  The documents can outlive their OS by many
decades.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-31  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-30 19:12 bug#49786: 28.0.50; [PATCH] package-install shouldn't change default-directory dick
2021-07-30 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 20:41   ` dick
2021-07-31  6:09     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-30 20:50   ` Ioannis Kappas
2021-07-31  1:27     ` dick
2021-07-31  6:19       ` Eli Zaretskii

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