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From: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:30:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C7DBF3FD-926F-4265-802B-F36B07F2A33B@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ybp5wzz95.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:

> PS I don't recall seeing a compelling reason as to why configure needs
> to be in the repository at all, so I still suggest just ditching it.

In the past, it has been pretty annoying to deal with version skew in autoconf, especially as different gnu packages required different versions (typically a `new/old' split).  I've no idea if this is a practical concern today; I do notice that version skew comes up now and then.

I hope that helps,
*Chad




  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-10 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-09 21:30 Merging emacs-23 into trunk Stefan Monnier
2010-11-10  4:34 ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-10  5:44   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-10 11:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-11  2:28       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-11  6:32         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-11  8:39           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-11  9:11             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-11 12:29               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-10  9:01   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-10 15:38   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-10 17:28     ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-10 20:42       ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-10 22:30         ` Chad Brown [this message]
2010-11-11  4:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-11  5:09           ` Kenichi Handa
2010-11-11 19:55             ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-11 20:01               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-11 20:23                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-11 20:49                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-10 12:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-10 15:46   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-10 17:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-10 19:03       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-10 19:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-10 19:36           ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-11  6:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-11 17:13               ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-11  2:52           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-11  6:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-10 19:32         ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-11 19:57           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-11 20:20             ` Óscar Fuentes
     [not found]               ` <jwvd3qbo3z1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2010-11-12 16:51                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-12 20:41                   ` Stefan Monnier

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