From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: trunk r115926: In preparation for the move to git, sanitize out some Bazaar-specific names. Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:13:38 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140109131337.GA6053@thyrsus.com> References: <87mwj6f23d.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <20140109002754.GA22950@thyrsus.com> <20140109012554.GA23333@thyrsus.com> <20140109052705.GA3424@thyrsus.com> <20140109123702.GB5361@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389273230 12043 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 13:13:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 13:13:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bastien , Emacs developers To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 14:13:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1FQr-000157-DI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:13:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51907 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1FQq-0005qj-TT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:13:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55548) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1FQj-0005qR-SS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1FQf-0000TI-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:13:49 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:37968 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1FQY-0000Sa-TS; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:13:40 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5C09A381DBE; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:13:38 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167899 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero : > > I don't see any win at all in this reversion. And because doing it would > > reintroduce a layering violation, I'm going to need a lot of convincing. > > Why should I have to convince you that you shouldn't remove published > APIs? I don't want to turn this into a silly commit battle, but if you > don't fix it in a compatible way, I will. I'm only asking that your > changes for the future (need I to remind you that we're still using > Bazaar?) do not break anything that does not *need* to be broken. Wouldn't defining emacs-bzr-get-version as an obsolete function alias for emacs-repository-get-version solve the problem in a way satisfactory to both of us? It wouldn't reintroduce a layering bug into loadup.el, and it would give you your compatible API. -- Eric S. Raymond