From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:31:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4745c966-4531-f946-8eca-de996c3958d2@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4ef9k57k7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 1/10/19 5:03 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> The current philosophy is "omit things that aren't relevant".
Sure, but the question is "What's relevant?" and the answer depends on
the audience. For example, .gitignore is relevant to anybody who checks
a tarball's files into a fresh Git repository, and msdos/autogen is
relevant to anybody who does serious development on MS-DOS regardless of
whether they're using Git. For each of the nondistributed source files,
one can make a case that the file is relevant in some cases.
A simple answer to "What's relevant?" is "every source file that's in
the repository, plus all files generated by 'make' that are useful on
all platforms". This answer would mean that all the files I mentioned
should be in the distribution tarball. If the answer to "What's
relevant?" is something else, then (a) I'm not sure what the answer is
and (b) whatever the answer is, it's likely complicated and that
complexity has a maintenance cost.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-11 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-07 16:10 Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out Nicolas Petton
2019-01-07 21:42 ` John Wiegley
2019-01-07 22:11 ` Glenn Morris
2019-01-07 23:03 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-01-08 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-08 0:59 ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-11 1:03 ` Glenn Morris
2019-01-11 2:31 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-01-16 10:30 ` what make-dist should include [was Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out] Glenn Morris
2019-01-17 5:42 ` Mike Kupfer
2019-01-17 21:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-18 0:18 ` Mike Kupfer
2019-01-18 3:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-20 1:08 ` Mike Kupfer
2019-01-20 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-18 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-20 0:54 ` Mike Kupfer
2019-01-18 18:58 ` Glenn Morris
2019-01-22 21:58 ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-23 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-23 17:52 ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-23 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-08 1:25 ` Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out Paul Eggert
2019-01-08 8:53 ` Nicolas Petton
2019-01-09 15:02 ` Phillip Lord
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