From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ldefs-boot.el Date: 14 Aug 2005 05:49:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200508121949.j7CJnKG07646@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200508140035.j7E0ZrH12413@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124014754 15260 80.91.229.2 (14 Aug 2005 10:19:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:19:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 14 12:19:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4FZc-000284-9C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:18:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4Fcv-0002Ka-Jh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4FLy-0005hK-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4FLs-0005ez-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4FLq-0005Zv-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.245.121.138] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1E4FML-0004ko-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1E4F7J-0000G2-R3; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 05:49:21 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200508140035.j7E0ZrH12413@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:42026 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42026 Luc Teirlinck writes: > Unless, of course, it would be possible to come up with an alternate > design that would make ldefs-boot.el unnecessary, or automatically > updating. the explanation looks good; you should probably install it. if someone wishes to implement an automatic approach in the future, those notes will inform its design. in this way we can make incremental progress. (note: "in the future" may mean before release or after -- that's for whoever wants to write the automatic approach to figure out. my point is that there is no point in holding back on comment-munging changes that clarify existing process.) thi