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: MH-E 7.4.4 checked in Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:26:52 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1890.1089689203@newt.com> <2914-Tue13Jul2004070451+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <3589.1089692661@newt.com> <2914-Tue13Jul2004215551+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <30509.1089781796@newt.com> <6654-Fri16Jul2004152801+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <8011-Fri16Jul2004163116+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <23643.1089986972@trantor.xilinx.com> <9743-Sat17Jul2004123408+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090164441 24637 80.91.224.253 (18 Jul 2004 15:27:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, eliz@gnu.org, wohler@newt.com, satyaki@theforce.stanford.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 18 17:27:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BmDZC-0003SB-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:27:06 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BmDZC-0000Ir-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:27:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BmDbp-0005Qs-OM for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:29:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BmDbh-0005QL-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BmDbf-0005Pa-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BmDbf-0005P8-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BmDYz-0002EN-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:26:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BmDYy-0000XL-5t; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:26:52 -0400 Original-To: Stefan In-reply-to: (message from Stefan on 17 Jul 2004 11:11:06 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25817 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25817 We have a number > of other Lisp packages (Eshell, CC-Mode, Ediff, etc.) with subtle > dependencies among their *.el files, but "make recompile" always does > TRT for them. We should try to get rid of these dependencies, and certainly not introduce any more. If I had had time to maintain Emacs more thoroughly, including studying how these things work, I would probably have insisted on redesigning them. But I didn't have time, and I don't really know about these problems.