From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch vs. overwrite in bzr Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:10:05 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87398i6r6a.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87k42cwys8.fsf@gnu.org> <87limhuldm.fsf@gnu.org> <871uo7g4j6.fsf@gnu.org> <87iphjhbm8.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87398lgrat.fsf_-_@niu.edu> <871uo5c7r0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87pqbpj5j3.fsf@altern.org> <87aa2szgig.fsf@gnu.org> <87ehs4yrhz.fsf@gnu.org> <83k41vctyg.fsf@gnu.org> <83aa2rcnww.fsf@gnu.org> <8362dedgcb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333647155 31881 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2012 17:32:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:32:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 05 19:32:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFqXv-0007mM-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:32:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFqCt-0005Ob-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFqCn-0005OQ-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:10:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFqCX-0003nF-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFqCX-0003ms-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFqCN-0002KO-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:10:15 +0200 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:10:15 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:10:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6NG/DUqMJGEqn7hr21qcvT3qnPY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:149408 Archived-At: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:24:37 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Stefan Monnier writes: >> That amounts to using the Emacs repository is the canonical repository >> for Gnus, ERC, CEDET, MH-E, Org, ... >> But they don't want to do that, often for good reasons (legal, >> practical, ...). LMI> I would guess that the main practical reason for having the external LMI> repositories is the long feature freeze that happens in Emacs LMI> development. I would be very unhappy if Gnus switched from Git to Bazaar, and I believe many Gnus and other packages' developers feel the same way. For me, at least, it's a bigger issue than the feature freezes or the compatibility code. Ted