From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] make-dist fixes and clean-ups Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:27:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vf64bk4u.fsf@marant.org> <87d5sbcfqi.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87y8az2l7i.fsf@marant.org> <87wtq84mnx.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87vf5rglp2.fsf@xs4all.nl> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115828657 24629 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2005 16:24:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmarant@free.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 11 18:24:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVu0F-0003u4-DX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:24:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVu91-0006iG-0A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVu6L-0005YV-4v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVu6I-0005XL-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVu6I-0005UJ-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DVuBL-00005e-Ix for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:35:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DVu3n-0003gJ-0e; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:27:47 -0400 Original-To: Lute Kamstra In-reply-to: <87vf5rglp2.fsf@xs4all.nl> (message from Lute Kamstra on Tue, 10 May 2005 17:11:37 +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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36977 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36977 Agreed. Jérôme Marant pointed out that including ldefs-boot.el allows a "make maintainer-clean" and then a ".configure" plus "make bootstrap" on an unpacked distribution tarball. I think that's a nice feature. In general, it is a good thing to distribute *all* the code that we normally use for working on Emacs. We should not remove something from the distribution just because "ordinary users don't use it". That goal is mistaken, and people shouldn't try to aim for that goal.