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: linum.el? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:51:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87d4rj58r0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201805547 27247 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 18:52:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 31 19:52:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKeWk-0001E7-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:52:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKeWJ-0005zg-06 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:52:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKeVg-0005XI-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:51:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKeVf-0005WX-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:51:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKeVf-0005WS-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:51:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKeVf-0006yP-CD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:51:39 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JKeVe-0007fP-Tg; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:51:38 -0500 In-reply-to: <87d4rj58r0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:00:35 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:87881 Archived-At: I've found that even "modular" new features can be pretty annoying in merging to the trunk -- even if they start out the same on both the trunk and branch, many files seem to nevertheless generate a lot of merge conflicts. Most of the time I don't think we should make the decision about installing something in Emacs 22 just based on that.