From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: adding warning to obsolete unicode branch Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:35:43 -0800 Message-ID: <200802031935.m13JZvKD019404@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <87myqhj2b4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202067439 29207 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2008 19:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-unicode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 03 20:37:40 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 1JLkep-0005PZ-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:37:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLkeN-0007kQ-4w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:37:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLkeJ-0007ir-0W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:37:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLkeH-0007iO-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:37:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLkeH-0007iL-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:37:05 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLke9-0000xG-KF; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:36:58 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1202672158.33372@AHRKj6odMF0YKIWQyC5oZw Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m13JZvKD019404; Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:35:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87myqhj2b4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:57:19 +0900") Original-Lines: 30 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:88100 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > As a large number of people used the emacs-unicode-2 branch > out of CVS, I think it might be a good idea to add a warning > to the configure script and Makefiles in the branch, so that > if they update from that branch and build emacs, they'll get > a big fat message telling them they should probably use the > trunk instead. > > E.g. > > ******************************************************************** > ** ** > ** The Emacs "emacs-unicode-2" branch has been merged into ** > ** the CVS trunk, and is now obsolete. You should probably ** > ** use the CVS trunk instead. ** > ** ** > ** To switch a CVS checkout to the trunk, use the command: ** > ** ** > ** cvs update -A ** > ** ** > ******************************************************************** > > The configure script is easy, though I'm not exactly sure > which make targets such a thing should be added to... > > Any opinions? How about just make configure exit after printing the message above, that way there's no need worry about the makefiles.