From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rename and clean unexec.c Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:18:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83hbjjcxex.fsf@gnu.org> <87sk33pdpf.fsf@telefonica.net> <83aapbcoqs.fsf@gnu.org> <838w4vc7gs.fsf@gnu.org> <834oficgpf.fsf@gnu.org> <8339v2c9ea.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280438297 6475 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2010 21:18:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 29 23:18:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeaUY-0003ro-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:18:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46272 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeaUX-0000mx-DC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:18:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38617 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeaUO-0000mH-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OeaUN-00046u-19 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:56336) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OeaUM-00046q-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeaUM-0007lc-8L; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:18:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8339v2c9ea.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu\, 29 Jul 2010 23\:37\:01 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:127989 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Dan Nicolaescu >> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:21 -0400 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> I've worked very hard at removing decades of accumulated cruft, please >> don't stand in the way for no good reason. > > With all due respect, this is not your private war, and you aren't the Please don't aggravate a simple discussion by adding words like "war". > only one whose opinions matter. And unexec.c isn't cruft. The name of that file is currently almost the only remaining cruft. Please look at the history of the file and see how much cruft was removed from there in the last 2 years. I am not sure why are so opposed to this. Let me repeat the arguments. We have a generic function "unexec", most programmers would look for the normal implementation in unexec.c, but that's the wrong place for everyone, except you. We have these files: unexaix.c unexcw.c unexec.c unexelf.c unexhp9k800.c unexmacosx.c unexsol.c unexw32.c for all the name obviously tells what they are used for, except for unexec.c So this is mostly about what is most useful for the vast majority of people.