From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: nt/makefile.w32-in Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:28:41 +0100 Message-ID: <458C15C9.3040604@student.lu.se> References: <6d73670c64.70c646d736@net.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166808556 21176 80.91.229.10 (22 Dec 2006 17:29:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 22 18:29:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxoCf-0004O5-Vj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:29:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxoCf-0007P8-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:29:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxoCO-0007JW-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:28:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxoCL-0007FR-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:28:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxoCK-0007FK-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:28:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GxoCH-00056q-Ia; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:61421 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GxoCF-0000Hl-5D; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:28:39 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0662-0, 2006-12-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GxoCF-0000Hl-5D. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GxoCF-0000Hl-5D b0ba43bacd971307d1b66fb4d7848cd9 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64117 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On 12/22/06, LENNART BORGMAN wrote: > >> What I want to avoid is trouble after the release for those who >> wants to build themselves with tools that perhaps barks when >> there are different line endings in Makefile. > > The CVS is accesible to anyone, and already many people builds from > the CVS instead of waiting for an official release (understandably, I > might add). We don't receive complains about that issue, so it must be > either a non-problem, or at least quite easy to circumvent. > >> It seems like this point has somehow totally disappeared from >> our discussion. > > No. What seems to be disappearing from this discussion is this > collection of facts: > > - not many people builds on Windows > - nobody's complaining about the line endings (but you) > - we're trying to do a release > > and your counterarguments are: > > - perhaps it could hypothetically be a problem for someone > - we can "fix" it, so let's fix it > - I don't think it will break anything > > Excuse me if I don't find them compelling. (Yeah, I know I'm > simplifying your arguments; what are strawmen for? :) Ok, I give up. But I am not convinced ;-)