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: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:57:40 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140112145740.GA5858@thyrsus.com> References: <20140112043735.C0A2E380523@snark.thyrsus.com> <52D21EFA.1010905@cs.ucla.edu> <20140112050859.GA1742@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 1389538694 9094 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 14:58:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:58:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 15:58:22 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 1W2MUX-000742-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:58:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2MUX-0007Ad-Bg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58021) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2MUR-000745-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:58:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2MUN-0002dC-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:58:15 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:58514 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2MUM-0002d8-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:58:10 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 31E2E3811D4; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:57:40 -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:168188 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > The comment makes it clear it's a "best effort" hack. I see no benefit > to removing it. If it works, great. If it doesn't, oh well. Your mail crossed mine about removing it, sorry. The benefit is that a deoendency on the VCS goes away. -- Eric S. Raymond