From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, jim@meyering.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] automatically handle .xz suffix (XZ-compressed files), too
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MIx3Y-0005iZ-OH@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873a9snxe8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:41:51 -0400)
>> This still hasn't made it into CVS. I think it would be short-sighted
>> to omit XZ support from 23.1, and the patch looks safe to me.
>
> Thanks for speaking up.
> I too was surprised by the lack of response,
> considering I posted about this three times, and even Cc'd
> the two maintainers explicitly once.
>
> Had it not been for the problems at savannah,
> I would have gone ahead and committed about then.
>
> Barring any objection, I'll commit this on the trunk in a few hours
Please go ahead and commit to the trunk, but it's too late for 23.1.
There is no need to be rigid in carrying out policies about what
changes to install. To do a good job of maintaining Emacs doesn't
require acting like government bureaucrats.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-23 3:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-18 11:21 [PATCH] automatically handle .xz suffix (XZ-compressed files), too Jim Meyering
2009-06-22 6:46 ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-06-22 12:18 ` Jim Meyering
2009-06-22 14:41 ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-23 3:52 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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