From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is the autogen directory still needed? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:41:39 +0200 Message-ID: <8338nkg2vg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vc0jg5wq.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppqrfjwk.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383018111 9514 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2013 03:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 03:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 29 04:41:55 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vb0Bm-0003aZ-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:41:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vb0Bm-00077c-D0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:41:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45147) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vb0Be-00077W-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:41:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vb0BY-0007jj-7q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:41889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vb0BY-0007jc-0E; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVE00F00VFM2Y00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:41:38 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVE00F8BVLE3G00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:41:38 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164608 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:26:27 -0400 > > I'm just saying, that _if_ the only justification we can come up with > for the existence of the autogen/ directory is that one developer needs > a few of the files within it from time-to-time for personal use, then > IMO that's not worth keeping in the repository and updating on a > (potentially) daily basis. I didn't express any objections to deleting those files from the repository, did I? > Does bzr itself even run under MS-DOS, or do you fetch the sources in > some other OS, then transfer them across to a DOS environment? I run my DOS development environment on Windows. The build happens in a local bzr branch whose parent is the trunk branch that is bound to savannah. > But maybe someone else will come up with a good reason why autogen/ > should continue to exist, in which case the above is irrelevant. Which is why I provided the information about the files that the DOS build uses.