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: rename and clean unexec.c Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:07:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83y6clwydl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83hbjjcxex.fsf@gnu.org> <87sk33pdpf.fsf@telefonica.net> <83aapbcoqs.fsf@gnu.org> <838w4vc7gs.fsf@gnu.org> <834oficgpf.fsf@gnu.org> <8339v2c9ea.fsf@gnu.org> <83zkx9bhhm.fsf@gnu.org> <83vd7xb9l0.fsf@gnu.org> <87y6cm71wr.fsf@telefonica.net> <831vaexopd.fsf@gnu.org> <87tyna6nw1.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280977663 7083 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2010 03:07:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 03:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 05 05:07:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ogqo0-0003Pt-Mc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:07:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ogqo0-0001YC-3h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34939 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ogqns-0001Xx-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ogqnq-00060J-AK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:41347) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ogqnp-00060D-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L6N00400SIVW500@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:07:29 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.102.143]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L6N004VLSOGQ540@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:07:29 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87tyna6nw1.fsf@telefonica.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128266 Archived-At: > From: =C3=93scar Fuentes > Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:58:38 +0200 >=20 > The point of my liking is that somebody is trying to do something a= bout > that. If you object to renaming a small platform-specific file, wha= t > would you say if he wants to rename several core functions? >=20 > Being allowed to easily do forensics is good. Having a clean, frien= dly > code base is *much* better. You would say that unexec.c is just a t= iny > inconvenience, but Emacs has hundreds of such tiny inconveniences, = and > that amounts to a big annoyance. Please remember that Emacs is not = in > maintenance mode by a few veteran hackers, it is supposed to be an > evolving project with a need for new programmers. I wonder why you thought I deserved this lecture.