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: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:13:16 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2366.81.51.30.174.1098020712.squirrel@yxa.extundo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098710267 11567 80.91.229.6 (25 Oct 2004 13:17:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 25 15:17:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CM4jH-0003OP-00 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:17:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CM4qv-0002hn-RQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CM4o5-00016a-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CM4o1-00014s-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:22:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CM4o1-00013E-19 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CM4fQ-0000mN-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CM4ey-00051Y-WB; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:13:17 -0400 Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-reply-to: (message from Simon Josefsson on Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:24:27 +0200) 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+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28909 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28909 Yes, I think that would make sense, assuming that a shorter subr.el is better. We should not change subr.el to make it shorter, nor to make it longer. That is not the criterion. We put things in subr.el either because they are too small to want separate files of their own, or because they are used often enough to be worth preloading. I would think that the current definition of read-passwd fits the first criterion but not the second. The new definition, depending on password.el, I think doesn't fit either one; it may as well be autoloaded from the new file. I do not remember the reason for the change of name, but maybe it was for compatibility with something.