From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CPerl-mode bug [Re: Relation with package authors (CPerl-mode follow-ups)] Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:28:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1115190893.4278766d8332a@imp5-q.free.fr> <87wtqdn563.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87wtq6olso.fsf@marant.org> <877jgrj22g.fsf_-_@marant.org> <87mzp9bnrm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <20050630043416.GA14713@math.berkeley.edu> <20050630053339.GA14841@math.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120168757 31445 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2005 21:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmarant@free.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, cperl@ilyaz.org, snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 23:59:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do73i-00087y-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:58:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do7C2-0001ql-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do7AH-0000kh-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do7AH-0000jx-0X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do70W-0007K8-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:55:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Do6hK-0002Gu-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Do6ad-0001OH-G1; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:28:55 -0400 Original-To: Ilya Zakharevich In-reply-to: <20050630053339.GA14841@math.berkeley.edu> (message from Ilya Zakharevich on Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:33:39 -0700) 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:39982 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39982 I suspect that in this case "a proper merge" will consist of removing 95% of changes made w.r.t. the reference (my) implementation. If that's the right thing to do, then let's do it. However, we have to find the other 5% (or whatever fraction it is) and keep them--we can't throw them away without checking. Also, we'll need change log entries for the changes, starting from our current version. If you want to do this work, that would be ideal, but our changes do need to be look at one by one, not discarded en masse. The easiest way to look at them is to diff our current version against a suitable old version. I will do that for you if you want.