From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove S_IFLNK Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:36:19 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4D698063.2000607@cs.ucla.edu> References: <8739nhji0d.fsf@gmail.com> <4D62C1A3.2050407@cs.ucla.edu> <834o7xt985.fsf@gnu.org> <4D631AC3.3010600@cs.ucla.edu> <4D638488.50101@cs.ucla.edu> <4D642E50.7080006@cs.ucla.edu> <4D681EF8.3080308@cs.ucla.edu> <83vd06oetf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298759809 20585 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2011 22:36:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 26 23:36:43 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PtSkk-0007Yv-6f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:36:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtSkj-0004f5-Oy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:36:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35345 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtSkb-0004cR-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:36:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PtSkW-0001A7-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:36:33 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:50532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PtSkP-00017z-OD; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:36:21 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D48A39E80DF; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:36:20 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XA3hxvKV5PgE; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:36:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 97E5239E80DB; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:36:19 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <83vd06oetf.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:136566 Archived-At: On 02/26/2011 10:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > they are not important enough to justify such heavyweight changes The changes are not heavyweight. In Emacs proper, the latest proposal deletes 26 and inserts 9 lines, and I could easily reduce that "9" to a "3" if you hadn't asked to retain a specially-worded diagnostic for ENOSYS failure. It's true that the change imports more stuff from gnulib, but that's OK too. It's normal, and expected, and is good software engineering practice, to move the porting complexity out of Emacs proper and into the porting code. > When you decide to merge it, please give me a day or two to add > the stub functions for Windows and DOS, so that when you commit, > these two ports will still build. OK, I'll wait a couple of days before merging it.