From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: dired-du Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 20:53:33 +0300 Message-ID: <8337brjyhu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8737brwz2a.fsf@calancha-pc> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495821234 13864 195.159.176.226 (26 May 2017 17:53:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 17:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, tino.calancha@gmail.com To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 26 19:53:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dEJQo-0003Oe-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 19:53:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEJQt-0004Ek-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 13:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEJQh-00048s-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 13:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEJQe-0006Aa-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 13:53:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEJQe-0006AW-BI; Fri, 26 May 2017 13:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1225 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dEJQd-0006M6-GT; Fri, 26 May 2017 13:53:35 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Sat, 27 May 2017 00:04:34 +0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:215227 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 00:04:34 +0700 > Cc: Emacs developers > > > I) > > This library defines a minor mode `dired-du-mode' to display > > the recursive size of directories in Dired buffers. This mode > > uses the external `du' program when available. Otherwise, it > > performs a rough estimation with Lisp. > > Would it be useful to extract the Lisp replacement of du as a separate > library, or does that raise too many questions about cache management? Why not use get-free-disk-space, which would make the library much more portable?