From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: nt/makefile.w32-in Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:12:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <458A71F9.2050709@gnu.org> <458AFA12.4010700@student.lu.se> <458B0F4C.90909@student.lu.se> <458B15E5.7040201@gnu.org> <458B1A41.6030401@student.lu.se> <458B1F2F.5090206@student.lu.se> <458B3C5E.5080508@student.lu.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166785952 13472 80.91.229.10 (22 Dec 2006 11:12:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:12:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 22 12:12:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxiK9-0004RW-3S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:12:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxiK8-00075G-HV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:12:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxiJu-000735-Rm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:12:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxiJt-00070N-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:12:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxiJs-00070F-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:12:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.73] (helo=heller.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GxiJr-0002aU-Qt; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:12:08 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-216-239.inter.net.il [84.229.216.239]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id BIH26506 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:12:05 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <458B3C5E.5080508@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:01:02 +0100) 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:64096 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:01:02 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman > CC: Jason Rumney , Eli Zaretskii , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > It works now (we aren't being floored with complains about the line > > endings of [gn]make.defs). Can you guarantee without a doubt that the > > change won't bring hell for people who's building just fine at the > > moment? > > No, but I would be very surprised if it did. Lennart, did you _ever_ happened to manage a release of a software product? If you did, you know that making unnecessary changes, just because it sounds like ``the Right Thing to do'' is a recipe for releasing unstable software. > After all it is not very uncommon for a Makefile to have consistent > line endings ;-) Who said makefile.w32-in is read only by Make?