From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gratuitous changes Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:22:12 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030204181156.B770.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <20030204173331.B76A.LEKTU@terra.es> <1044378850.6251.82.camel@lan1> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044379928 21714 80.91.224.249 (4 Feb 2003 17:32:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:32:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18g6vX-0005e5-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:32:07 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18g73i-00077e-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18g6rh-0001do-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:28:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18g6qR-0001Gi-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:26:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18g6oo-0008WM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.141] (helo=mail.peoplecall.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18g6m1-0006t8-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:22:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.143] (jbarranquero.ofi.peoplecall.com [62.22.27.143]) by mail.peoplecall.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h14HMCP13433; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:22:12 +0100 Original-To: Robert Anderson In-Reply-To: <1044378850.6251.82.camel@lan1> X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05.06 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:11349 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11349 On 04 Feb 2003 09:14:09 -0800, Robert Anderson wrote: > You did, but perhaps it would have been polite to confer with Stefan > first, to have the best timing on it. I asked if anyone opposed the change in any way, and no one did. I asked about branches, and Stefan answered in private mail about the issue. I haven't heard a single voice (till now) saying "wait". I honestly don't think I'm being impolite. > IMO, that was not the optimal way to do it, both because it wasted your > time and it makes it harder for people to do a parallel change without > wasting their own. IMO, that was the optimal way to do it, because I got to decide what files and how to change, instead of relying in a mindless bulk substitution of some sort (even if the script has a lot of inteligence). > Food for thought: a script would have left a precise prescription for > what you did that was trivially applicable to other branches as well as > sandboxes to prevent the kinds of merge and update problems this was > trying to minimize. And more food for thought: I have a few years of experience in programming, I've got some tools (Perl among them) at hand, and still I decided to do by hand what is undoubtedly a very boring task... Anyway, the Unicode branch is still unchanged. If you have a better method, by all means, go for it. I'd *love* for you to do the change with a script and save me the effort. /L/e/k/t/u