From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing the lisp/loaddefs.el situation Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:50:38 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030922225038.GA26980@fencepost> References: <874qzhcuqf.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <878yoq7e06.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <7137-Mon22Sep2003194607+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064271096 5362 80.91.224.253 (22 Sep 2003 22:51:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:51:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 23 00:51:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A1ZWn-0001ap-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:51:33 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A1Zcn-0004W3-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:57:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A1ZWR-0002ma-1E for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A1ZWN-0002mV-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:51:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A1ZWL-0002mH-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A1ZWL-0002mC-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 1A1ZVu-00079s-As; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:50:38 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7137-Mon22Sep2003194607+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16560 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16560 On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:46:07PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I see one problem with this change: loaddefs.el and loaddefs-boot.el > map to the same name on 8+3 filesystems. So loaddefs-boot.el should > be renamed to something like ldefs-boot.el or boot-loaddefs.el or > whatever. Are we still supporting 8+3 filesystems? I ran `doschk' and it reports a bunch of violations for emacs; certainly we could fix them, but it seems worthwhile to consider whether it's worth the trouble anymore. -Miles -- Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory. -- Walter Hines Page