From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etags name collision. Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:01:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83czhn5zbc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20220411124736.3qijvtearh6wlen7.ref@Ergus> <20220411124736.3qijvtearh6wlen7@Ergus> <83pmln69n0.fsf@gnu.org> <20220411134749.ps6g5ulpbamzm6ot@Ergus> <83k0bv679q.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34593"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 11 19:05:14 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ndxTV-0008oc-Qw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 19:05:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60800 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndxTU-0001ND-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndxQ6-0003Ok-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndxQ6-0005H3-9R; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:01:42 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=B+Gc0+/BqkPz6B65xKbP6UmKZ4x1QpPa65180wc1ZpI=; b=oA1yBnZDGZDI tlBVlQpG81n65vk4cXLBJJiSoonRy3nq1M3bYHfrTXd/UJR3QhX+8PufT0p6EdMAMZcTpUY+yCKeN zaITSKfXO9VyL9JCwB6BGFx4MpfX7pgdb5sYtzh5L0/w26ejAxX7khWatCuS4RhUVDniWcGmrv7dD zbJ06WFw4Vej8/jFFfu1jt4TfR9PwpnOctoXDPp30Ame8Xrl0s3EAUzTfOK2hmnLJlfkAtQEVrK65 wse+E3fpGeJAWNvbz6KCHAU5Ht+d1moFWcUbbBklxp/isipfKRM1N61mo4mMoKZ8C8qZ8QHLjaLVt i/VesX7p0IGzfQkEAVdnSw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3079 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndxQ5-0003MJ-Oi; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:01:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:46:03 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:288229 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Ergus , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:46:03 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii [2022-04-11 17:09:53] wrote: > > I'm opposed to dropping stuff just because we can. If you want to add > > an option not to install ctags if another version is installed > > (similarly to what we do with movemail), that's fine. But please > > don't argue for dropping parts of Emacs unconditionally because you > > personally find it not useful, that argument will never fly with me. > > Maybe we should install it under a different name, to avoid > the conflict but without losing the functionality? No, that would be confusing and will break those who do still use our ctags. I think detecting that another kind of ctags is installed is the best and safest way to have the cake and eat it, too.