From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New build process? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:25:33 +0200 Organization: Micropit Message-ID: <87sjpsdtaa.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> References: <20110726184220.GA6390@acm.acm> <87bowg6fre.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E2F2084.7070001@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311755155 19164 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2011 08:25:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:25:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 10:25:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QlzR9-00034E-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:25:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33012 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlzR8-0004r4-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlzR5-0004qn-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlzR4-0004KF-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40803) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlzR4-0004KB-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:25:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QlzR3-00031X-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:25:45 +0200 Original-Received: from arennes-651-1-327-205.w2-12.abo.wanadoo.fr ([2.12.206.205]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:25:45 +0200 Original-Received: from pmlists by arennes-651-1-327-205.w2-12.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:25:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: arennes-651-1-327-205.w2-12.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xhe/yrdMixhRGYlIRF39xmlcmTE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:142357 Archived-At: On Wed, Jul 27 2011, Tim Cross wrote: > Still, my main pint is I don't think we should get too carried away > trying to automate all of this. It is a common requirement and while > some may have been caught out, it is something you should expect when > working this close to the development layer. Efforts were made to > communicate the changes on this list (by you IIRC Eli) and there is > information in the INSTALL.BZR file. My objection with trying to > automate or eliminate this simple step is that the solution can often > be worse than the problem and adds just another point of potential > failure in a step which is already simple and straight-forward (once > you know about it!). +1 > However, if we can rename the file or make > another copy of the instructions under a name which the majority feel > is more likely to be noticed, great - all for that. I don't see a big problem with the file name, but eventually you could merge its content into INSTALL and then remove INSTALL.BZR. -- Peter