From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: what make-dist should include [was Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out] Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:30:50 -0500 Message-ID: <7zfttsgahx.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87ftu430u6.fsf@petton.fr> <12614070-f1bc-9e26-7f38-5dded990a65a@cs.ucla.edu> <4745c966-4531-f946-8eca-de996c3958d2@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1547634553 24557 195.159.176.226 (16 Jan 2019 10:29:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:29:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 11:29:08 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 1gjiRY-0006Fh-Ki for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:29:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46432 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjiTf-00074v-EX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:31:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjiTU-00074W-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:31:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjiTF-0001Pn-3t; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:30:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gjiTC-0003vd-V2; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:30:50 -0500 X-Spook: Toxic brigand beanpole al-Qaida Border Patrol plutonium X-Ran: !@Y#fN9|+zO3SIJgf/x9 (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:31:14 -0800") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:232388 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > 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 then builds in place) > and msdos/autogen is relevant to anybody who does serious development > on MS-DOS regardless of whether they're using Git. I doubt such people exist, for either example. I see zero practical advantages to a switch to a "distribute everything" approach (which Emacs has never done, and nor when I check do eg tar, texinfo, coreutils); unless it will drastically simplify make-dist and avoid problems like the one fixed in 021f34b. If it does then I am all for it. :)