From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: newsticker-*.el files Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 11:56:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200806082201.m58M142d000380@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <86ve0j6jfr.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213005466 10506 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 09:57:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Miles Bader , sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "David Kastrup" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 11:58:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5e8p-0004pB-9I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:58:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5e82-0002lw-3o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5e7c-0002Lx-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5e7a-0002JQ-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40682 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5e7Z-0002Is-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:1332) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5e7Y-0004tu-EL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so1787497wag.10 for ; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:56:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=eDyRzNJ8YooijdClO7zzp0aLyxt3MptJ1Qs1m2RfwDE=; b=NPmukTFhGmiVFGcDNvmfjVip25LW3bT5H34WEKbvQxqfNF8GafwbOUILH1v2Hu+ffM 8YBrQQ06vF6MpOMLJ/zKrAjO6f7i9VbNcRG7wexACbrTSzY3YvpcN+2qW0jTayEIrWEd DJghCKuwLZOmCrVLHNhfmpSakaz4k9Uz/1CY0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=RbCh6hJFksEVKbevPyDTPU1Djccyw1JLrYBpbY6RfpfbfkyGZ40YLZtyrE7Md/YM9E aYuK5W+jyrK6VOAD1cnfuq2DXvfgrns95rzoyYjybl6pm7NAyOeCRnSTQWxlvIEZ2uXk /x6mhh/6rTGApqro456anxV4MikpzoL3fI+qo= Original-Received: by 10.114.178.1 with SMTP id a1mr3019322waf.20.1213005418702; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.167.12 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 02:56:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86ve0j6jfr.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98789 Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:34, David Kastrup wrote: > Apart from that: renaming files in CVS is not "sufficiently low cost". Well, it is, if done now. It is not, after the files have accumulated history. We've renamed files for less logical reasons (I'm thinking of old-whitespace...) > Man weeks of discussion are not "sufficiently low cost". Supervising > people to monitor 8.3 restrictions time and again is not "sufficiently > low cost". As Eli is the one doing that work, it is low cost for the rest of the Emacs developers. Or would be, were not so inclined to discuss the issue once and again. Which is entirely the point. > If the benefits are irrelevant and we are just talking about > a way to spend the time, playing arcade games is more fun. Please! Juanma