From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO additions Date: 24 Nov 2002 18:57:42 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200210291902.g9TJ2AY18220@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038164890 24399 80.91.224.249 (24 Nov 2002 19:08:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:08:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18G1zV-00064M-00 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:00:25 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18G24k-0002GF-00 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:05:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18G1xp-0004df-00; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:58:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18G1x3-0003n7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:57:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18G1wz-0003i9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:57:52 -0500 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18G1wx-0003dk-00; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:57:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18G1ws-0007JK-00; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:57:42 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9647 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9647 Richard Stallman writes: > Well, it's not true unless, for instance, you consider the diffs in > the current Debian source package to constitute a `funny version'. > > It is a nonstandard version. Perhaps some of their patches > ought to be installed in Emacs--we would have to judge them one by one. The question was about libc for Linux, not about Emacs on Debian. [Actually I think the basic Debian Emacs patches are both unnecessary and annoying (he says, typing at such an Emacs).] > It would help if all > the macros which have an effect in the source were documented > AC_DEFINE or AH_TEMPLATE doc strings in configure.in. > > The lists in configure.in would be painfully long, Just one line per option (unless the description is longer than a line). That's surely no longer than the info would be if the template.h files had been kept up-to-date concerning all the flags. > and we would want > to move them into separate files--which is where they are now. I don't know what you mean. The information I'm talking about is just missing. > The inheritance chains of *.h files are often long. Perhaps it would > simplify matters in some situations to eliminate some of the inheritance > by making some of the files self-contained. That would be better. It's not just a question of simplification. Things down the chain typically break systems higher up, as usg5-4.h did, when they specify things that are not true for more recent or more specific systems.