Re: charprop.el and uni-*.el

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@ni.aist.go.jp>
> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:24:55 +0900
> 
> I intended to put files charprop.el and uni-*.el under
> lisp/internatinal in CVS, and someone who re-generats them
> from admin/unidata/UnicodeData.txt (perhaps by getting the
> recent version of that file from unicode.org) commits them.
> 
> And, this part in src/Makefile.in:
> 
> #ifdef HAVE_UNIDATA
> UNIDATA=${admindir}unidata/UnicodeData.txt
> 
> ${lispsource}international/charprop.el: temacs${EXEEXT} ${UNIDATA}
> 	RUNEMACS="$(RUN_TEMACS)"; \
> 	cd ${admindir}unidata; \
> 	$(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) \
> 	  RUNEMACS="$${RUNEMACS}" DSTDIR=${lispsource}international
> #endif
> 
> was just for my conveninence, and I forgot to delete it.
> 
> So, I'm going to commit charprop.in and uni-*.el in CVS and
> delete the above target in src/Makefile.in.  Any objection?

And what happens when the next Unicode release publishes a new version
of UnicodeData.txt?

> In the future, I'll write a code to gradually generate data
> in uni-*.el from UnicodeData.txt (storing it under etc) on
> demand

How is this different from what we have now?