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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-unicode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: adding warning to obsolete unicode branch
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:35:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802031935.m13JZvKD019404@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myqhj2b4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:57:19 +0900")

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

  > As a large number of people used the emacs-unicode-2 branch
  > out of CVS, I think it might be a good idea to add a warning
  > to the configure script and Makefiles in the branch, so that
  > if they update from that branch and build emacs, they'll get
  > a big fat message telling them they should probably use the
  > trunk instead.
  > 
  > E.g.
  > 
  > ********************************************************************
  > **                                                                **
  > **  The Emacs "emacs-unicode-2" branch has been merged into       **
  > **  the CVS trunk, and is now obsolete.  You should probably      **
  > **  use the CVS trunk instead.                                    **
  > **                                                                **
  > **  To switch a CVS checkout to the trunk, use the command:       **
  > **                                                                **
  > **     cvs update -A                                              **
  > **                                                                **
  > ********************************************************************
  > 
  > The configure script is easy, though I'm not exactly sure
  > which make targets such a thing should be added to...
  > 
  > Any opinions?

How about just make configure exit after printing the message above,
that way there's no need worry about the makefiles.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-03 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-03 18:57 adding warning to obsolete unicode branch Miles Bader
2008-02-03 19:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-02-03 20:45 ` Sean Sieger
2008-02-04  2:40 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-17 16:17 ` David Abrahams
2008-02-17 19:47   ` Miles Bader

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