From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Correct line/column numbers in byte compiler messages [Was: GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects] Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 19:25:41 +0000 Message-ID: <20200320192541.GB5255@ACM> References: <20200319203449.GA4180@ACM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="50573"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel To: Rocky Bernstein Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 20 20:26:29 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jFNHo-000D3Q-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:26:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58162 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jFNHo-0000Tl-2B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:26:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55533) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jFNHC-0008Gt-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jFNH6-0004KP-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:31715 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jFNH6-0004JJ-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 19443 invoked by uid 3782); 20 Mar 2020 19:25:42 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4FE15C8D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.92.141]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:25:41 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 5275 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Mar 2020 19:25:41 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245609 Archived-At: Hello, Rocky. On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 16:56:45 -0400, Rocky Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 4:35 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: [ .... ] > > I don't think it is fair to give this problem to a group of summer > > coders. It is too hard a problem, both technically and politically. > Ok. So do you have a suggestion for what a summer student might do? Sorry, no I don't. It would need to be something in that sweet spot between being dull and tedious and being too challenging and difficult. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).