From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making project-files the "canonical" generic Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:25:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20180922154639.23195.66360@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180922154640.9D58220310@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <54108dbc-9d12-06ff-3f1d-151118e9b234@yandex.ru> <4e729d1e-bb31-455f-fd44-e99ae5a6b9fa@yandex.ru> <86zhs5r9lr.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> <08de4d90-d678-0524-9356-f9a3515bf0c4@yandex.ru> <86a7k2rabi.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1547732257 24527 195.159.176.226 (17 Jan 2019 13:37:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:37:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 17 14:37:33 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gk7rR-0006G2-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:37:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44597 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gk7tY-00064n-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:39:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gk7ma-0008Vi-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:32:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gk7fp-0000nW-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:25:35 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:36394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gk7fl-0000eP-CY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:25:32 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id x0HDPNn6014130; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:25:23 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CF3906A58C; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:25:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Thu, 17 Jan 2019 05:23:30 +0300") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 3 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.1, EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6463=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6463> : inlines <6996> : streams <1810345> : uri <2781331> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:232422 Archived-At: > But again, why allow it? For example because of backward compatibility. Or because there is one example of its possible use. Why disallow it? Stefan