From: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CEDET merge question
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:21:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skex6skt.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqftzegt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:41:06 -0400")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> This is a practical matter: since CEDET is such a large and
> complicated package, we shouldn't make changes directly to our
> copy of it, apart from those that are necessary to adapt it to
> Emacs' conventions and build system (which is what I've been
> working on). Instead, changes should be applied first to Eric's
> repository, then merged back into our tree.
If it's so large and complicated that we can't handle it like the
rest of Emacs, is it really a good idea to merge it in? I don't
think we have any other packages where the rule is "make the change
upstream first". That sounds like a liability to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-05 16:28 CEDET merge question Chong Yidong
2009-09-05 17:22 ` David Engster
2009-09-05 20:53 ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-05 23:08 ` David Engster
2009-09-06 15:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-06 17:46 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-06 21:11 ` David Engster
2009-09-06 22:26 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-07 13:33 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-12 12:49 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-12 13:37 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-14 11:22 ` tomas
2009-09-14 12:15 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-14 20:04 ` tomas
2009-09-12 16:34 ` David Engster
2009-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-13 17:38 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-14 18:28 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-13 16:40 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-07 13:34 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-08 8:11 ` joakim
2009-09-08 9:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-08 9:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-08 14:41 ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-08 15:10 ` joakim
2009-09-08 17:18 ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-08 21:21 ` Romain Francoise [this message]
2009-09-08 22:27 ` Chong Yidong
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