From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO additions Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:12:58 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200210291902.g9TJ2AY18220@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037899034 3154 80.91.224.249 (21 Nov 2002 17:17:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Euwz-0000od-00 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:17:13 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Ev0k-0003qt-00 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:21:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18Euvn-0002I1-00; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:15:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18Eusz-0000b4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:13:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18Eust-0000YC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18Eust-0000Y6-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18Euss-00028Z-00; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:12:58 -0500 Original-To: d.love@dl.ac.uk In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on 20 Nov 2002 17:10:07 +0000) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9608 Well, it's not true unless, for instance, you consider the diffs in the current Debian source package to constitute a `funny version'. It is a nonstandard version. Perhaps some of their patches ought to be installed in Emacs--we would have to judge them one by one. It would help if all the macros which have an effect in the source were documented AC_DEFINE or AH_TEMPLATE doc strings in configure.in. The lists in configure.in would be painfully long, and we would want to move them into separate files--which is where they are now. The inheritance chains of *.h files are often long. Perhaps it would simplify matters in some situations to eliminate some of the inheritance by making some of the files self-contained.