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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Alexandru Harsanyi <harsanyi@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:29:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080102232915.GB4431@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd4sj6dib.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
> speedbar doesn't actually want a list of "admin dirs used by VCS".
> Instead it wants a list of "directories not to show in speedbar",
> e.g. "dirs used for things like meta-data".  VCS are probably the most
> common users of meta-data directories, but not the only ones.

Right.  If those other classes of metadata directories have elisp packages
that naturally own them, them I think speedbar ought to refer back to those
packages.

> > This seems wrong to me, violating what database people call the SPOT
> > (Single Point Of Truth) rule.
> 
> Just because it's not in VC doesn't mean it can't be put in a single
> spot, right?  ;-)

Certainly not.  But, since VC needs the information anyway, where else
would you put them?
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-02 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28 17:45 Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-28 23:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-29  2:48 ` Alexandru Harsanyi
2007-12-29 11:45   ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02  2:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02  2:19       ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02  4:16         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02  4:45           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-02 11:50             ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 17:31               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-03  9:50             ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 18:05               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-03 18:19                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05  5:54                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05  9:01                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-05 14:34                     ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 22:25                       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-06 10:37                       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-06 15:57                         ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-18 23:31                           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-06 20:00                         ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-06 21:03                           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-07  2:59                             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-07  3:26                               ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-07  3:36                                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-07  3:59                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-07 12:56                                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-07 15:31                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-07 11:30                                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 12:54                                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-07 15:32                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-08 19:06                                     ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-08 19:34                                       ` Miles Bader
2008-01-07  3:22                           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-07  3:03                             ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-07  4:01                               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-07 21:15                                 ` PCL-CVS buffers (was: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored) Reiner Steib
2008-01-08  2:33                                   ` PCL-CVS buffers Stefan Monnier
2008-01-18 23:46                           ` Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-19  0:10                             ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-19  1:20                               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-19  6:00                             ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-19 17:05                               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-19 19:40                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-19 21:01                                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-20 17:18                                     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-20 20:24                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-20 17:08                                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-20 19:08                                   ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-20 20:14                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-20 19:45                                       ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-22  1:35                                         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-19 20:03                                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-20 19:24                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-20 20:30                                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-21 15:18                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-21 15:30                                         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-21 15:56                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-21 15:34                                         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-06  8:09                     ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-02 11:46           ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 20:38             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 22:11               ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 23:06                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 23:29                   ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2008-01-03 14:30                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-03 17:41                       ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05  5:54                         ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-02 23:13                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-02 23:33                   ` Eric S. Raymond

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