From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Anderson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Fwd: [arch-users] Re: Gud lord!] Date: 09 Jun 2003 07:53:13 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1055170394.1387.22.camel@lan1> References: <1055034587.1439.121.camel@lan1> <87el256zha.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <20030609011846.GB19331@reactor-core.org> <87ptlo58ew.fsf@wesley.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055169831 13977 80.91.224.249 (9 Jun 2003 14:43:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 14:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 16:43:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19PNsC-0003cz-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 16:43:48 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19POCF-00078x-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:04:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19PNtm-00066j-Tz for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 10:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19PNtC-0005nQ-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 10:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19PNsx-0005Ki-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 10:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.103]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19PNsu-0005Ae-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 10:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (adsl-64-163-139-137.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.163.139.137])h59EiVl8132110; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:44:31 -0400 Original-To: Alan Shutko In-Reply-To: <87ptlo58ew.fsf@wesley.springies.com> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-11) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14957 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14957 On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 18:47, Alan Shutko wrote: > Jonathan Walther writes: > > > I can't take the time to learn how to use that wheel-barrow, I have a > > foundation to dig; I'll just keep carrying the dirt over to the pile a > > shovelful at a time. > > That's a very bad analogy, since CVS is currently working, you just > have pain when renaming files. Well that's false. You have many other sources of pain as well, some of which you might not have realized were painful until you've used a better tool. > How many years of experience has arch had? The implementation(s) may be > perfectly mature, but that doesn't mean that people's understanding of > it is. Agree. > If you'd like to see Emacs using arch, since arch is so decentralized, > maybe you or Robert could start maintaining an Emacs arch repository. If I was going to do that, it would not be for emacs. Bob