From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files from gnulib Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:03:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83y66bzuhc.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C81A1.70009@cs.ucla.edu> <83ipxfymox.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3E0A8E.1030400@cs.ucla.edu> <8362tdzl7m.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3E8E4C.1010000@cs.ucla.edu> <4D3F1171.5010201@cs.ucla.edu> <83y668yfgt.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295989665 27110 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2011 21:07:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, Paul Eggert , bug-gnulib@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 25 22:07:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Phq6w-0005Me-9c for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:07:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57921 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Phq6v-0003UM-Lp for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:07:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35298 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Phq6i-0003Sv-A7 for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:07:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Phq6h-0000Hh-1J for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:07:20 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:40281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Phq6d-00006p-DB; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p0PL3TkT031368; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EDF64130004; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:03:16 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83y668yfgt.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:02:10 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3735=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:24927 gmane.emacs.devel:134960 Archived-At: >> djtar -n emacs-25.chg emacs-25.tgz >> ... >> It is a bit more complex and error-prone for MS-DOS, yes. But >> it has the advantage of compartmentalizing the MS-DOS restrictions >> into the MS-DOS build instructions > Sorry, but these complications are unacceptable for me. We use > something like that in GDB, and the result is extremely fragile and > error-prone, I find problems with missing renames every time I build > GDB. I'm not going to make the same kind or mistake again in Emacs. Here's a compromise: - let's do the renames that need to be done (they're really not problematic, AFAICT). - let's try and get this "djtar -n emacs-25.chg emacs-25.tgz" to work reliably, e.g. by auto-building the emacs-25.chg file as part of make-dist, so there's no way for that file to be "missing renames". Stefan