From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [simon.marshall@misys.com: vc-diff uses unknown -L switch] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:12:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1150630533.17525.3.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150913611 9464 80.91.229.2 (21 Jun 2006 18:13:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:13:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 21 20:13:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ft7CZ-00058K-5H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:13:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ft7CY-0006eZ-Cg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:13:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ft7CL-0006d3-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ft7CJ-0006bw-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ft7CJ-0006bt-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Ft7Mn-00058E-Br; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224A92CF42A; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:12:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from dino15.iro.umontreal.ca (dino15.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.95]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C97A445C; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:12:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by dino15.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 06AB569AA5; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:12:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Andre Spiegel In-Reply-To: <1150630533.17525.3.camel@localhost> (Andre Spiegel's message of "Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:35:32 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:56064 Archived-At: > Usage of -L was introduced in vc.el in March 2004. At the time, there > was some discussion about whether that switch was available in enough > versions of diff. Back then, people seemed to agree it was widespread > enough. Solaris 8 is a fairly important operating system though, and if > it doesn't support -L natively, I think vc.el needs to be able to deal > with this. > Stefan, can you have a look? I'm on a trip right now, so if you find the time, please do it. Otherwise I'll take a look at it when I come back, Stefan