From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: relint (ex-trawl) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:20:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83r2azq6l3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <16A56C60-DD30-4320-823B-E74CF020E49E@acm.org> <83tvfyu4cx.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0mmt7mf.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgvhsmnv.fsf@gnu.org> <97FA0617-4298-4A02-83C6-DED2A8EB961E@acm.org> <83bm24uwvz.fsf@gnu.org> <11F8B0FD-DF74-4DDC-97F4-73244352DEE5@acm.org> <83va0bq80t.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="83852"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 22 16:39:49 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 esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7MGq-000LhS-Rv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:39:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7MGp-0005Is-Q3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59150) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7MEo-0004V7-6L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7Lxt-0004lq-Qj; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1105 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7Lxs-0007OY-Tr; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:20:13 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:01:43 -0400) 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:234590 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:01:43 -0400 > > > My point was that I don't think we should have in our Makefiles > > targets that require tools which are neither expected to be installed > > on many systems nor come with the Emacs repository. > > What's the harm? The harm is that it's IME annoying to invoke a target only to be presented with some error message which at best says some file or program is missing. What's the use of having a target that you cannot run? > And it'll be a lot more convenient than "a small Makefile in the > package with a lint-emacs-regexps target" since that Makefile would > be hidden inside ~/.emacs.d/elpa and would have to be told which > Emacs you want to run and/or which source files you want to check. Nothing that cannot be solved by an Emacs command, right?