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: nt/README and nt/README.w32 confuse. Why nt/README still live? Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:41:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83vcrecbj0.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319492533 860 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2011 21:42:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:42:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Oleksandr Gavenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 23:42:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RISHV-0002Qt-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:42:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RISHU-0002dm-R7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49401) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RISHR-0002dY-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RISHQ-00009n-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:51838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RISHQ-00009Y-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:42:00 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LTL00000ACVKO00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:41:58 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.212.197]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LTL0001QAXPH4B0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:41:50 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:145484 Archived-At: > From: Oleksandr Gavenko > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:12:07 +0300 > > ediff on nt/README.w32 and nt/README show that > nt/README is mostly subset of nt/README.w32. > > So why nt/README still alive? They are each needed in slightly different situation. README.W32 is not present in the release tarball, it's placed on the FTP site near the tarballs and zip files. > I confused what to read and my little detective search told me > that nt/README useless as duplicate and have no any other info > then in nt/README.w32. > > I suggest remove this file (and move any missing to > nt/README.w32) to follow SPOT rule. As long as they don't contradict, there's no harm in having both.