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: CVS is the `released version' Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:47:07 +0200 Message-ID: <85d50udnf8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <86646mjvxp.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179773250 18925 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 18:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 18:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: JD Smith Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 20:47:29 2007 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 4.50) id 1HqCue-0002Oj-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:47:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqCud-0000sj-PE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqCuY-0000sb-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqCuX-0000qR-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqCuX-0000qF-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqCuW-0006Dl-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.14]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A9C2CAD7A; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:47:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3D01152C2; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:47:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-080-217.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.80.217]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F6E19B329; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:47:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B59E01C4CE33; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:47:07 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (JD Smith's message of "Mon\, 21 May 2007 11\:36\:49 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:71541 Archived-At: JD Smith writes: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:46:42 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > >> I can't see how this would in any way diminuish the FSF's ability to >> develop Emacs as an FSF-copyrighted package. At the current point of >> time, both pulling a (non-standardized) package into Emacs and >> maintaining it externally is a source of pain. > > Isn't that the point? That pain may be the motivation to assign > copyright and move a package into the mainline Emacs distribution. Where is the point if this act is equally painful? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum