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: Git transition checklist Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:29:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83lhyodhlz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140108135200.8ECF9380834@snark.thyrsus.com> <1738kywelh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140108200216.GB5374@thyrsus.com> <6pr48h52eq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y52pg4ov.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <838uupeitt.fsf@gnu.org> <87sisxfu6q.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87txddmmcj.fsf@igel.home> <87lhypfcs4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <831u0hdrcp.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvoxf0x6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83txddc70n.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqi93pwi.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83mwj5c4zh.fsf@gnu.org> <87sisw52yo.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389299372 19945 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 20:29:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 20:29:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 21:29:38 2014 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 1W1MET-0006WN-GJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:29:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53969 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1MET-0000li-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:29:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1MEE-0000Q8-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1ME8-0003LX-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:29:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1ME8-0003LR-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:29:16 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZ500F00HO66U00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:29:14 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZ500EPOI8QZ5A0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:29:14 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87sisw52yo.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:167974 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:12:47 +0100 >=20 > > Thanks, but I don't think a VCS should dictate how I configure my > > builds to such a great extent. I'm quite sure a less invasive sol= ution > > can be found. >=20 > Where is the "great extent" and how is it "invasive"? Because you n= eed > to remove hacks from the build system and Emacs itself? No, because a package should support building both from its source directory and outside it. Every other project does. > Placing build products in the source directory while doing an > out-of-source build is terrible, so the feature shouldn't exist to = begin > with. But I like it. And it's not up to you or the VCS to educate me about that, not at my age.