From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:31:14 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4745c966-4531-f946-8eca-de996c3958d2@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87ftu430u6.fsf@petton.fr> <12614070-f1bc-9e26-7f38-5dded990a65a@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1547173769 17199 195.159.176.226 (11 Jan 2019 02:29:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 02:29:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 Cc: Nicolas Petton , Emacs Devel To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 11 03:29:24 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ghmZX-0004Le-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2019 03:29:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghmbd-00006L-3a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:31:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghmbT-00006E-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:31:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghmbS-0001Gq-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:44472) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghmbR-000196-Df; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:31:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2F5160FED; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:31:15 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Dt7jVWpFssTx; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:31:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EA0160FEE; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:31:14 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id t-MTxZFWopVL; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:31:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7349B160F7C; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:31:14 -0800 (PST) Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=eggert@cs.ucla.edu; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsFNBEyAcmQBEADAAyH2xoTu7ppG5D3a8FMZEon74dCvc4+q1XA2J2tBy2pwaTqfhpxxdGA9 Jj50UJ3PD4bSUEgN8tLZ0san47l5XTAFLi2456ciSl5m8sKaHlGdt9XmAAtmXqeZVIYX/UFS 96fDzf4xhEmm/y7LbYEPQdUdxu47xA5KhTYp5bltF3WYDz1Ygd7gx07Auwp7iw7eNvnoDTAl KAl8KYDZzbDNCQGEbpY3efZIvPdeI+FWQN4W+kghy+P6au6PrIIhYraeua7XDdb2LS1en3Ss mE3QjqfRqI/A2ue8JMwsvXe/WK38Ezs6x74iTaqI3AFH6ilAhDqpMnd/msSESNFt76DiO1ZK QMr9amVPknjfPmJISqdhgB1DlEdw34sROf6V8mZw0xfqT6PKE46LcFefzs0kbg4GORf8vjG2 Sf1tk5eU8MBiyN/bZ03bKNjNYMpODDQQwuP84kYLkX2wBxxMAhBxwbDVZudzxDZJ1C2VXujC OJVxq2kljBM9ETYuUGqd75AW2LXrLw6+MuIsHFAYAgRr7+KcwDgBAfwhPBYX34nSSiHlmLC+ KaHLeCLF5ZI2vKm3HEeCTtlOg7xZEONgwzL+fdKo+D6SoC8RRxJKs8a3sVfI4t6CnrQzvJbB n6gxdgCu5i29J1QCYrCYvql2UyFPAK+do99/1jOXT4m2836j1wARAQABzSBQYXVsIEVnZ2Vy dCA8ZWdnZXJ0QGNzLnVjbGEuZWR1PsLBfgQTAQIAKAUCTIByZAIbAwUJEswDAAYLCQgHAwIG FQgCCQoLBBYCAwECH In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232304 Archived-At: On 1/10/19 5:03 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > The current philosophy is "omit things that aren't relevant". Sure, but the question is "What's relevant?" and the answer depends on the audience. For example, .gitignore is relevant to anybody who checks a tarball's files into a fresh Git repository, and msdos/autogen is relevant to anybody who does serious development on MS-DOS regardless of whether they're using Git. For each of the nondistributed source files, one can make a case that the file is relevant in some cases. A simple answer to "What's relevant?" is "every source file that's in the repository, plus all files generated by 'make' that are useful on all platforms". This answer would mean that all the files I mentioned should be in the distribution tarball. If the answer to "What's relevant?" is something else, then (a) I'm not sure what the answer is and (b) whatever the answer is, it's likely complicated and that complexity has a maintenance cost.