From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CEDET merge Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:42:27 +0200 Message-ID: <19137.915.832493.655984@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <87hbun9jbs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <19136.62172.620142.447740@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <871vlr7y3m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254163409 15760 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 18:43:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 28 20:43:19 2009 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 1MsLBQ-0005fD-QS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:42:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34295 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsLBQ-0005Tx-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsLBE-0005NE-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:42:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsLB9-0005GH-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40316 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsLB8-0005G1-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:54138) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsLB8-0001xE-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n8SIgRDD010480; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:42:27 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8SIgRcU015304; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:42:27 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8SIgRUw015301; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:42:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <871vlr7y3m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12 under 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:115733 Archived-At: >>>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Chong Yidong wrote: >> Was this renaming of files really necessary? It breaks backwards >> compatibility and imposes additional work on package authors and >> distros. > No one suggested any other solution to the filename problem. The obvious solution is not to support CEDET on platforms with 8+3 filenames ... > Maybe we could get around this by adding a `cedet-compat' package > that loads everything everything in CEDET and provides all the old > CEDET feature names; then loading this file will provide everything > a third-party package needs to compile. Not sure if loading everything at once is a good idea. CEDET is huge. But couldn't at least the old feature names be provided by the single files? (As it was done for newsticker-*, for example.) Ulrich