From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [CVS] regex.[ch] missing in CVS checkout Date: 06 Jan 2004 15:41:22 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ptdwrbzx.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> References: <20031223225322.8E9BA612AA@sandy.gi.alaska.edu> <87ad5hr9nl.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <871xqfl27l.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <87smivtpg1.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87k746rsz6.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> Reply-To: kfogel@red-bean.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073443973 10428 80.91.224.253 (7 Jan 2004 02:52:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 02:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 03:52:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ae3oN-0008CH-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:52:47 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ae3oN-0005vz-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:52:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ae4kO-00076k-JT for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ae4go-0004ZK-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:49:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ae4fa-0003eJ-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.115.63.73] (helo=pimout5-ext.prodigy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ae4fF-0003Px-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from floss.red-bean.com (adsl-66-73-168-220.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [66.73.168.220]) by pimout5-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i072jp6R280164; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:45:53 -0500 Original-Received: from kfogel by floss.red-bean.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1Adyx1-0006Mk-00; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:41:23 -0600 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Emacs: a Lisp interpreter masquerading as ... a Lisp interpreter! In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19062 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19062 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > However nobody seems to answer my basic question: > > ARE THERE ANY OTHER PACKAGES (besides emacs) WHICH USES THOSE FILES? It may be that no one here knows. > If emacs is the only packages which uses these files, why maintain > them separately from emacs? > > All changes to those files for the last 5 years are related to emacs, > so I doubt any other package is using them. I don't want us to solve > a problem which isn't there! Sure, that makes sense. I don't know how to find out whether they're being used by other packages, which depend on them staying in the original repository. Not sure where you should ask to get an authoritative answer, either, and there's no particular reason why this list would be the place. -Karl