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: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:07:09 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080105160709.GQ30869@thyrsus.com> References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <20080104232514.GB2735@muc.de> <20080105052007.GA27075@thyrsus.com> <20080105111720.GA3014@muc.de> <20080105145743.GH30869@thyrsus.com> <477FA79C.8030606@gmail.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 1199549224 12936 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 16:07:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , "emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Emacs Devel" To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 17:07:25 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 1JBBYR-0008Da-KU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:07:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBBY5-0003gI-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:07:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBBY0-0003do-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:06:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBBXy-0003c6-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:06:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBBXy-0003bo-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:06:54 -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 1JBBXx-0003xQ-Ox for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:06:53 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 781BA41C316; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:07:09 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <477FA79C.8030606@gmail.com> 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:86189 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) : >> A VCS-based solution would be more complicated than necessary. Easier >> just to write a w3m-based client that pulls a copy of the entire bug >> database out of the tracker. > > Just a detail and nothing to discuss now: w3m is not available everywhere. > Maybe the url libraries in Emacs can be used though. Friendly amendment accepted. -- Eric S. Raymond