From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: No rule to make target `../lib/ignore-value.h'
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:03:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9qwqozpq5f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83txk3vcvn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:53:16 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > How do you discourage volunteers from scratching their itches?
>>
>> Well, removing those files would surely do it.
>
> It's as easy to restore a removed file as it is to remove it. One can
> even do that and keep the original file ID, so the history is intact.
I was being flippant.
Obviously, we can discourage things by stating that they are discouraged.
No, we cannot stop people forking Emacs and doing whatever they want
with the build system, but "we" can make policy decisions and say "no
thanks, we do not want that code in Emacs".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-09 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-09 9:08 No rule to make target `../lib/ignore-value.h' martin rudalics
2013-07-09 9:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 10:35 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-09 11:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 13:07 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-09 13:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 14:48 ` Paul Eggert
2013-07-09 14:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 16:05 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-09 16:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 16:11 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-09 16:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-10 9:18 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-10 9:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-10 9:53 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-10 10:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-10 12:16 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-10 14:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-10 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 17:21 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-09 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 18:03 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-07-09 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 18:15 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-09 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 16:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 17:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-09 16:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-09 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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