From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Request for policy ruling - dropping Arch support fom VC? Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:12:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20141205231217.B9D6F383525@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417821201 14709 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 23:13:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 23:13:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 00:13:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx23j-0005tS-Nz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:13:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52831 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx23j-0003I0-90 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:13:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46797) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx23S-0003Ho-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:12:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx23M-0005mT-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:12:53 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:59037 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx23M-0005m2-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:12:48 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B9D6F383525; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:12:17 -0500 (EST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179065 Archived-At: I don't know what the project policy is on supporting modes for software that has been end-of-lifed. Now I need to know. Michael Albinus has been working on a test framework for VC. In the process, we've discovered that the Arch register method is busted. I'm pretty sure I didn't do this with my recent changes to VC, that the arch backend had bitrotted due to changes in Arch. Arch has been end-of-lifed by its author. I think I have better things to do than chase a backward-compatibility problem in a mode for a VCS that (unlike RCS or SCCS) probably hasn't seen live use in a decade. Therefore I'd like to solve this problem the simple way, by dropping Arch support. What is policy on this sort of thing? -- Eric S. Raymond The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." -- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court