Re: gnulib strftime imported into Emacs

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

On 01/30/2011 08:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Could we please talk before making such disruptive changes in the
> future?

We did talk; for example,
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg01025.html>.
I thought this was enough, but apparently I was mistaken.

> Ideally, Windows related changes should be committed to the
> repository at approximately the same time as the changes for Posix
> platforms, but that's only possible if you let me see the changes
> _before_ they are committed, and if we coordinate the commit to happen
> when I have time to work on that.  Is such cooperation possible?

I worry that this would mean that every time I want to make a
nontrivial change to a makefile, I would have to run the exact change
by you first.  And, as you say, you don't have much free time, and can't be
expected to respond quickly; it might need to wait until the next weekend,
say.  That wouldn't be a good recipe for development; it would slow things
down too much on the trunk.

If this turns into a continuing problem, perhaps it would be better to establish
a branch for Microsoft-related platforms, and to merge changes from the trunk
into that branch whenever you have time.  People could then do Microsoft builds
from that branch.

> It also means that Tom will have to wait for yet another week with his
> threading related changes

Sorry, I don't get the connection.  Tom can't put in his threading
related changes until Emacs builds on Microsoft platforms?