File-name clashes in lisp/url/ directory

File-name clashes in lisp/url/ directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

The names of the files url-http.el and url-https.el (and the
corresponding *.elc files) clash on 8+3 filesystems.

Given the fact that url-https.el is very short, is it acceptable to
merge its contents into url-http.el, and then remove url-https.el from
the repository?

Re: File-name clashes in lisp/url/ directory

[Stefan]

> The names of the files url-http.el and url-https.el (and the
> corresponding *.elc files) clash on 8+3 filesystems.

> Given the fact that url-https.el is very short, is it acceptable to
> merge its contents into url-http.el, and then remove url-https.el from
> the repository?

I see no reason not to,


        Stefan

Re: File-name clashes in lisp/url/ directory

[Richard Stallman]

    Given the fact that url-https.el is very short, is it acceptable to
    merge its contents into url-http.el, and then remove url-https.el from
    the repository?

It would be a good idea, but it would need other changes in order to
work.  url-scheme-get-property seems to construct file names like
url-https from protocol names.

I don't like that mechanism much, and it would be good to change it to
use an alist of functions to call instead of generating file names.
Then merging the files would be unproblematical.