From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff in RCS Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:00:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87d4zt7i3n.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182157251 16951 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2007 09:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Hadron Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 11:00:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0D6I-0007IT-Eh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:00:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0D6I-0006rp-2v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0D5y-0006ou-2J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0D5u-0006jG-Od for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0D5u-0006ix-I0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:00:18 -0400 Original-Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.225]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0D5u-0000BY-2p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:00:18 -0400 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 55so918900wri for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:00:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:subject:references:x-face:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:from; b=RPygsymSgEQfRRMIoymZyrjNcwNgLZS1g7IFjMCkDPgzEhZrAn9MPdMb2eJHAjJpzZsXjxBskYuHonICG0+Ct+ocW+gM2qVwcwbjFcLhzphOXfyKubTQsje2iPimd7pb5IW3COBLiKCpro3lSPpDTeCIIvA9eRQQOGhB3zPrKSU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:cc:subject:references:x-face:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:from; b=r4ulrmKP1cKE4iPBsdG6OMhqhb5GMXRB0afWuMYyjfdtIbrKjNDCEV0HRwL8XlRhE6lNzTdNn0ky1IgLSP1zuDnAd3DHhwAeeKBXEJ99kiFtiSHLqr//s5RNNNrMwAuavIe+lscAfuNHR5/foWuLcUca2tgflfVeRRV73dKE6t4= Original-Received: by 10.78.130.6 with SMTP id c6mr2166751hud.1182157216088; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost.mail.individual.net ( [85.179.192.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i4sm3917551nfh.2007.06.18.02.00.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:00:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:38:40 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45147 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> Possibly a good idea to comment them as such? > > Yes, perhaps. But I have no idea that there are any problems (though your > report might be related). I haven't used change control much since I started > using Windows ;-). I just haven't felt like installing it. > >> The copyright indicates >> 2007 so I assumed the code was maintained and working :( > > Bad assumption. Yup - I wasted a lot of time. Easy way to address it of course and take "assumption" out of the equation is to just add a "old and not maintained and unlikely to work" comment :-; > > Even a recent change-log entry (though there are none in these files) > wouldn't necessarily mean that the library was working on that log date. The > change could just be something as simple as updating the address of the FSF > in the free-software declaration. Checking for a recent change-log entry and > reading what it says can help, but again, there are no guarantees. > > Sorry for any inconvenience. > No worries - it was educational. --