From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:38:53 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <58CB9F6B.5080806@gmx.at> <83h92sz2j9.fsf@gnu.org> <58CBAEB7.5030601@gmx.at> <58CBBC6C.8000104@gmx.at> <58D380FF.1070103@gmx.at> <58D3C84E.5080808@gmx.at> <58D4E0D6.2070101@gmx.at> <86mvcap85t.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <58D637CD.1020902@gmx.at> <60eced11-9b48-f24d-88d7-cacb211418c9@cs.ucla.edu> <58ECB63C.30003@gmx.at> <58ECE005.7050301@gmx.at> <58EDF345.9000109@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492007980 29212 195.159.176.226 (12 Apr 2017 14:39:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:39:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cc: Michal Nazarewicz , emacs-devel To: martin rudalics , Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 12 16:39:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cyJQl-0007SS-Jq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:39:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44667 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyJQq-0006Wd-1V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:39:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46241) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyJQJ-0006WX-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyJQE-0004tl-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:57974) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyJQE-0004sV-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8191600C4; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 2tMLWjIvCRd8; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3D21601DB; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:38:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 3lgIq2PGHHSD; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0460D1600C4; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:38:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <58EDF345.9000109@gmx.at> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:213914 Archived-At: On 04/12/2017 02:28 AM, martin rudalics wrote: > Doesn't this mean that many people don't really care about > trailing whitespace? No, as I recall the Git configuration was made optional because some developers objected to autogen.sh automatically setting transfer.fsckObjects in the Git configuration. I do not know the basis for these objections. autogen.sh reflects a compromise among various viewpoints. Lots of people (including me) don't particularly like it in its current form, which is a common property of compromises.