From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: trunk r115926: In preparation for the move to git, sanitize out some Bazaar-specific names. Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:48:03 +0900 Message-ID: <87zjn5g6j0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <56y52qcbbh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140108233424.GA15258@thyrsus.com> <20140109000406.GA22775@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389239379 5155 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 03:49:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 03:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eric Raymond , Emacs developers To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 04:49:45 2014 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 1W16cm-0007ry-Hs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:49:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W16cl-0003EG-Pn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:49:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W16cb-00036Z-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W16cU-00074Q-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:49:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:43379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W16cU-0006tR-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:49:22 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EC89708E0; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:48:03 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 238711A2E82; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:48:03 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:167851 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > Anyway, it's irrelevant whether it would serve me well at some point > in the future; when I used it, that's what the variable was > named. :-) More important, Emacsen built from the bzr repo are not going to go away. People are going to be making the transition over a period of *years*, not months. Probably only developers are really interested in this variable, but you just never know what 3rd parties are going to put in their packages or .emacs. Continuity is a good thing.