From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:53:50 -0500 Message-ID: <87d5k1k5yp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <55DA5764-DDB6-4858-9CE2-065857CDC863@gnu.org> <3AFF0594-F842-4079-9A3B-D1CF7358A281@raeburn.org> <0D268F0D-B278-4307-86E3-E0FCE7A3B57B@raeburn.org> <87pso6anui.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87wtibiti7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877jaalwq9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134446113 20698 80.91.229.2 (13 Dec 2005 03:55:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 13 04:55:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Em1Er-00074A-I1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:54:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Em1FN-00027l-Pk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Em1FB-00024D-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Em1FA-00022n-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Em1FA-00022I-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:54:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.95.6.185] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Em1Gz-0006Jj-9S; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:56:17 -0500 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ABBBE1E42BB; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:53:52 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:14:49 -0500") 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:47605 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > That does not mean no one is working on fixing those few bugs; just > that they have not been fixed yet. > > It does not prove no one is working on fixing those bugs, > but I suspect that nobody is. You snipped my main point: It is not an argument against starting the pretest. As people have pointed out several times, it is better to know about bugs earlier rather than later, since bug fixing takes place in parallel, not sequentially. You still haven't given any argument against starting the pretest, apart from some kind of gut feeling that the Emacs developers aren't working hard enough to fix bugs.