From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103850: update_autogen Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:50:04 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4DA09C4C.6070008@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4D9D45B3.8080502@cs.ucla.edu> <4D9E01BF.5070306@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302371449 5625 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2011 17:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 09 19:50:43 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8cIy-0000ZB-RT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:50:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8cIy-0003At-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35173 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8cIT-00030F-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8cIS-0006S6-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:42499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8cIR-0006Rx-Vg; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C10039E80B1; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:50:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PaQiXKBuVNiD; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [131.179.64.200] (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E43D039E8083; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:50:04 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.1.9-0.39.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:138332 Archived-At: On 04/08/2011 06:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Well, for one thing, we'll avoid unnecessary churning due only >> > to Autoconf version skew. :-) > People should *never* commit the autogen files by hand (except for > ldefs-boot.el Sorry, that was news to me. I suggest noting this in INSTALL.BZR, with an explanation of why it's OK that the trunk is temporarily unbuildable to people lacking autoconf. (Then I can point those people to INSTALL.BZR when they send me email. :-)