From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:29:15 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080102232915.GB4431@thyrsus.com> References: <20071228174512.66834830BC9@snark.thyrsus.com> <17EA38DF-BCC1-4565-8510-5DD10DD667E3@mac.com> <20071229114551.GD9794@thyrsus.com> <20080102021907.GA15494@thyrsus.com> <20080102114614.GA17588@thyrsus.com> <20080102221130.GA3400@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199316609 11675 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2008 23:30:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Alexandru Harsanyi To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 00:30:27 2008 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 1JAD2V-0004Zt-Gw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:30:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAD29-0007mt-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAD1O-0007Ug-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:29:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAD1L-0007TD-JJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:29:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAD1L-0007T6-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAD1J-0005oh-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id BF2A4830B03; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:29:15 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:85951 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > 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? -- Eric S. Raymond