From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VMS support
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:41:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807272141.m6RLf81i023496@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvproz2h9t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:44:39 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > That's what I've been saying, its absolutely _not_ minor.
>
> Keeping the ChangeLog on the side, as well as the list of files to `cvs
> rm' seems like very minor annoyances. Compared to the cost of finding
> the parts of the code that uses Carbon, then finding the places that
> refer to those places, ... Maybe you don't think so because you'd
> already done most of the work of finding the relevant places, but then
> you just have a *perception* of a high marginal cost.
Sorry, but repeating the same thing to someone that has the personal
practical experience of the things discussed is not exactly productive,
and obviously pointless.
> > So the question is, will you continue this policy?
>
> Yes. As I said, if you don't want to do this job, then just leave the
> old code in its place: we've been living with it for years, so it's
> not like it's urgent to remove it.
Fine. Dealing with silly, pointless red tape is not exactly the best
way to do volunteer work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-27 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87iquzmcxm.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
[not found] ` <87d4l76ntu.fsf@ambire.localdomain>
2008-07-21 19:52 ` VMS support Chong Yidong
2008-07-23 10:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-23 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-24 7:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-24 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-24 16:55 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-24 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 18:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-27 18:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 19:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-27 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 19:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-27 20:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 21:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-07-28 9:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-24 17:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-24 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-24 20:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-24 2:23 ` Richard M Stallman
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