From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gratuitous changes Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:18:47 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030205091103.1F29.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <20030204211350.DE42.LEKTU@terra.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044433105 11612 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 08:18:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gKlA-00030k-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:18:20 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18gKtd-00077C-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:27:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gKmB-0005JW-05 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 03:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gKls-0005FE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 03:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gKlp-0005B6-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 03:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.141] (helo=mail.peoplecall.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gKlo-0004yZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 03:19:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.143] (jbarranquero.ofi.peoplecall.com [62.22.27.143]) by mail.peoplecall.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h158IlP21503; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:18:47 +0100 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05.06 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11381 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11381 On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:01:01 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I'm sorry if my message sounded a bit harsh: I didn't mean that. No, it's me who's a little jumpy. Sorry. > I was just surprised to see some files touched by this which I didn't > expect you to change, like the old ChangeLog.* files, ONEWS.*, > texinfo.tex, etc. I thought about it before doing the change, but the rationale was that they're still in the sources and get modified every now and then (admitedly, INSTALL is modified less often than, say, files.el :), so the problem about new commits causing conflicts exists for them too (albeit on a very minor scale). I admit I got a bit carried on with texinfo.tex, termcap.src, etc., but anyway, if they're upgraded they probably will be wholesale, so that's no problem either IMO. > I just wanted to raise the point before it is buried under the > dust. The dust formed by the corpses of so many innocent bits who died on the Great Whitespace Commit Frenzy, you mean? ;) /L/e/k/t/u