From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: removing bushdb related code in gud.el Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:01:05 +1300 Message-ID: <17889.63761.72895.326368@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <20070226.024211.256833758.jet@gyve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172437291 8959 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2007 21:01:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bashdb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, rocky.bernstein@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Masatake YAMATO Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 25 22:01:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HLQUk-00039o-HS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:01:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLQUk-0007ya-Nf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:01:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLQUa-0007yV-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLQUX-0007yJ-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLQUX-0007yG-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:01:09 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HLQUW-0001x6-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:01:09 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (103.61.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.61.103]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCC63D9D1A; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:01:06 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 276D94F6A5; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:01:05 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: <20070226.024211.256833758.jet@gyve.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.94.2 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66806 Archived-At: > We(Rocky, the author of bashdb and I, a contributor) would like to > remove bashdb related code in gud.el. You would need to remove references in the manual too. > Bashdb has been improved/changed its output. > As the result we have to update bashdb related code in gud.el; the > version of bashdb and bashdb related code in gud.el must be > synced. This is not problem during emacs development stage. > I'm quite happy to work on such task. > > However, once new version of emacs is released. The code > synchronization task is out of my hand; even if I update the code in > Savannah's repository, users may use released version of emacs and > gud.el bundled to it. > > To avoid users' confusion, we'd like to move bashdb related code(bashdb.el) > in gud.el to bashdb itself. So we can provide well updated bashdb.el in > bashdb release. > > Any objection? I guess if bashdb.el is always distributed with bash, and users know how to put it in their load-path, then this makes sense. New releases of Emacs might break functionality but they will surely be less frequent than releases of Bash. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob