From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patches to calendar Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:05:18 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040920230518.GA13882@fencepost> References: <7ay8j4y445.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> <20040920223446.GA5482@fencepost> <3w1xgwft90.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095721656 9706 80.91.229.6 (20 Sep 2004 23:07:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 21 01:07:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C9XFd-0002zN-00 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:07:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C9XLX-0004HI-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:13:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C9XKd-0003lu-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C9XKc-0003lY-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C9XKc-0003lH-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C9XDi-0003hm-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C9XDi-0003eM-Hh; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:05:18 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader , emacs-devel@gnu.org, eclig@gmx.net Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3w1xgwft90.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27354 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27354 On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:52:27PM +0100, Glenn Morris wrote: > > I think there's no real advantage to doing "all of emacs" at once. > > For packages that have a maintainer this sort of thing should > > probably be done on a per-package basis at a time when the > > maintainer feels things are "stable" (the main point being to avoid > > any conflict with external patches). > > OK. I was remembering the Great Trailing Whitespace Purge. I think was a different sort of thing (and was a really dumb idea) because it touched _so_ much code. There are relatively few lambdas around, especially if you only count those that are in that form (simple quote), and changing them actually does have some benefit. -Miles -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.