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: Checking in files with trailing white space Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:47:02 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <20161211133110.GB14084@acm.fritz.box> <20161212221642.GA4361@acm.fritz.box> <83wpf4bj26.fsf@gnu.org> <366009d8-72f4-2f85-103c-214a5e111e77@cs.ucla.edu> <83oa0fbyx6.fsf@gnu.org> <8360mnbqnz.fsf@gnu.org> <053170b4-0258-bf23-c20b-236be50c984b@cs.ucla.edu> <83zijz9og4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481701769 11479 195.159.176.226 (14 Dec 2016 07:49:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:49:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 Cc: acm@muc.de, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 08:49:25 2016 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 1cH4JX-0001xb-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:49:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cH4Jb-00043I-GH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:49:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47093) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cH4HT-0007HO-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:47:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cH4HS-0007xK-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:47:15 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:48186) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cH4HO-0007wr-HF; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:47:10 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0EB16008E; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:47:06 -0800 (PST) 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 12WMhGxtypLk; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:47:06 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B4416009B; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:47:05 -0800 (PST) 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 pvENatfpzAtZ; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:47:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.178.162]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CFB7116008E; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:47:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83zijz9og4.fsf@gnu.org> 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:210439 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > providing compressed text files in the distribution > doesn't violate the GPL or its spirit. Sure, but we are talking about binary data files that are in the reposito= ry,=20 which is not the same thing. Most of these files are not in .gz form; the= y are=20 typically object files (in the GPL sense) of some other sort. These are t= he=20 more-serious issue, as far as the GPL goes. Again, I'm saying we're viola= ting=20 the GPL -- merely that we are not setting a good example of best practice= . Even if we restrict our attention to the repository's compressed text fil= es,=20 there seems little point to compressing a file before putting it into the= =20 repository. Compression makes it unnecessarily hard to maintain a text fi= le, as=20 standard maintenance commands do not work as well with such files. Althou= gh I=20 agree this practice doesn't violate the GPL, it is unnecessarily awkward = and the=20 cost of compression typically outweighs the benefits.