From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: authors excludes the lisp manual. Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 18:11:46 +0200 Message-ID: <851x8cfmpp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87wtq55ljs.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87ll6kbgtt.fsf@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115913971 18387 80.91.229.2 (12 May 2005 16:06:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 12 18:06:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWGBe-0004vn-5D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 18:05:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWGKb-0003MG-UA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 12:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWGK4-000315-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 12:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWGK3-00030E-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 12:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWGK2-0002zh-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 12:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DWGOq-0005XY-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 12:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DWGGq-0005OP-PE; Thu, 12 May 2005 12:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 4F07F1C46518; Thu, 12 May 2005 18:11:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lute Kamstra In-Reply-To: <87ll6kbgtt.fsf@xs4all.nl> (Lute Kamstra's message of "Thu, 12 May 2005 17:32:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:37042 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37042 Lute Kamstra writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Does anybody know why authors in lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el doesn't >> parse ChangeLogs in lispref/? I'd like to change that. >> >> Perhaps it has not been updated since we put lispref/ into the Emacs >> distribution. > > It explicitly excludes lispref/: > > ,---- > | (dolist (log logs) > | (when (and (string-match "ChangeLog\\(.[0-9]+\\)?$" log) > | (not (string-match "/lispref/" log))) > | (message "Scanning %s..." log) > | (authors-scan-change-log log table))) > `---- > > I guess that lispref/ was put in Emacs' CVS before the 21.1 release so > that authors needed to exclude it as Emacs 21 wasn't distributed with > the lisp manual. Could it have anything to do with the fact that the Lisp manual is not distributed under the GPL? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum