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: Files in wrong subdirs of emacs/lisp? Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 03:24:56 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030525031800.2398.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <20030523141856.FEB4.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> 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 1053825854 31847 80.91.224.249 (25 May 2003 01:24:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 01:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 25 03:24:12 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 19JkFA-0008HU-00 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 03:24:12 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19JkRf-0006Cn-00 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 03:37:07 +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 19JkGY-0000og-4D for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 24 May 2003 21:25:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JkFy-0000eM-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2003 21:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JkFv-0000aU-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2003 21:25:00 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.terra.es ([213.4.129.129] helo=tsmtp1.mail.isp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JkFu-0000Wv-B8; Sat, 24 May 2003 21:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.40.144.164] ([81.40.144.164]) by tsmtp1.mail.isp (terra.es) with ESMTP id HFF59J00.06V; Sun, 25 May 2003 03:24:55 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.06.02 Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:14216 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14216 On Sat, 24 May 2003 19:18:54 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > It would be useful to find out > > 1. Whether the job done by that file is still necessary. > If the answer to #1 is no, then the file is obsolete. > > 2. Whether the file still works. > If the answer to #2 is no, then the file could use fixing. > > 3. If the answers are Yes and No, who would like > to update the file. Asking the author (Tom Houlder ), if he's still around, would be the best way to find out, I'd say. (Not sure if he's the same Tom Houlder from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TomHoulder) > A separate file that normally isn't loaded costs very little. In run time or exe size metrics, sure. But every single file added to lisp/ (or src/ or whatever) adds complexity that has to be handled somehow. > What about unused.el? > > Maybe combine it with misc.el. Well, at least that way we'll have one file for probably-not-used-by-anyone elisp functions instead of two ;-) /L/e/k/t/u