From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is the autogen directory still needed? Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:26:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83vc0jg5wq.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppqrfjwk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382995587 15680 80.91.229.3 (28 Oct 2013 21:26:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 28 22:26:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VauKW-00033l-4L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 22:26:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43153 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VauKV-00087F-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41364) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VauKT-00087A-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VauKS-00019c-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VauKS-00019X-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:26:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VauKR-0003aT-Ou; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:26:27 -0400 X-Spook: PGP propaganda SRI espionage mailbomb Blowfish STARLAN X-Ran: w,nCY+57(O-gLFWS/C1z\7A0O9%p";;)MG3IHb.3R;L(C'2'[>p^G$43b>Y]hZsY0?^:?Z X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83ppqrfjwk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 27 Oct 2013 05:54:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164604 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I'm not interested in another "can we do something to make the MS-DOS > port suffer" discussion. Neither am I (I never have been). I'm just saying, that _if_ the only justification we can come up with for the existence of the autogen/ directory is that one developer needs a few of the files within it from time-to-time for personal use, then IMO that's not worth keeping in the repository and updating on a (potentially) daily basis. (Does bzr itself even run under MS-DOS, or do you fetch the sources in some other OS, then transfer them across to a DOS environment? If so, or even if not, just run autogen.sh in that other OS before you switch to DOS.) But maybe someone else will come up with a good reason why autogen/ should continue to exist, in which case the above is irrelevant.