From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [rudy@gnu.org: Re: [Savannah-hackers] [teirllm@dms.auburn.edu: Re: emacs/src/regex.c]] Date: 26 Dec 2003 01:19:51 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20031225145032.GA15377@fencepost> <3405-Thu25Dec2003222145+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <20031225213656.GB17775@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072394693 18495 80.91.224.253 (25 Dec 2003 23:24:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 26 00:24:50 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AZeqY-00080s-00 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:24:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AZeqY-0007lA-00 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:24:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AZfnW-0001qN-8B for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:25:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AZfmw-0001nA-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AZfmO-0001EH-US for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AZfmO-000140-AM; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:24:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AZelq-0000YZ-DI; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:19:58 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E8EE26295A; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:19:51 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Rudy Gevaert In-Reply-To: <20031225213656.GB17775@fencepost> Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18844 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18844 Rudy Gevaert writes: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > If symlinks are not the right thing to do, what is? Checking out > > regex.[ch] from their CVS and checking them into the Emacs CVS? I > > Yes Since there are _vital_ branch and release tagging information in the old regex.[ch] files related to GNU emacs, it would be inadequate to just commit the latest version of those files into the emacs repository. The only proper solution is to _copy_ the two ,v files directly (on the CVS server) into the emacs repository, to preserve consistency & history. > > > thought the links were used to avoid the need to resync the two > > repositories manually; is there a better way to do that? > > That could be. I don't know who set up those symlinks. In our > previous configuration it was possible. Now, every project runs in a > chroot. Linking outside this chroot doesn't seem to be the right > thing to do. > > I even doubt if it is possible. If it is, I could be that this breaks > (or could be exploited) the chroot environment. I don't think it is worth it. The symlinks were a hack whose time has gone... -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk