From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:04:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <83v9lesapw.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbms9m8.fsf@gnu.org> <83a72qs4z2.fsf@gnu.org> <732552A1-FF05-4292-8972-8C7E3BE922C7@icloud.com> <83sggiqjnw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="72974"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pcr910303@icloud.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 05:06:32 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRR8-000Iqb-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 05:06:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44700 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRR7-0003xl-A3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRPg-0001RO-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:05:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRPf-0000Pj-RV; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRPY-0006Gm-Vh; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:04:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Sat, 02 May 2020 20:50:43 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248764 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > There is > so much information around, and everything (in software community) is > developing fast and contionously, so remembering APIs seems as a > waste of energy. We must not change Emacs that fast. It would be a disaster: it would break users' code. Incompatible changes must occur at a snail's pace. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)