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: "Write a new package" culture instead of patches? Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:51:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <405FCFAB-30E4-4F98-81DA-3B09933E86D0@gnu.org> <207f6196-8df8-0941-b01f-1537c3e080e8@yandex.ru> <2A2E84A7-1737-4BAA-A603-39A328BF44B6@gmail.com> 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="39187"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, joostkremers@fastmail.fm, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, pcr910303@icloud.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, yandros@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 19 05:51:57 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 1jatIK-000A4E-Sp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 05:51:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59958 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatIJ-0002Ag-UV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:51:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatHd-0001Mi-LY for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatHd-0001X4-3u; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jatHb-0006Zs-6Q; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:51:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 17 May 2020 19:22:03 -0400) 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:250851 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. ]]] > I don't think it's necessarily a problem. It just means integration has > to be done separately. I agree -- but let's be clear that "integration" means merging the change (perhaps rewritten), not installing the patch package. -- 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)