From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: coding convention: file-name max lenth Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:29:41 -0700 Message-ID: <4D8E5FC797E04E54BB953DF6A3B391E8@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335709810 6821 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2012 14:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:30:10 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 29 16:30:09 2012 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 1SOV8V-0003St-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOV8U-0000cM-VC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:30:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOV8S-0000c9-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOV8Q-0003GY-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:29:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:20411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOV8Q-0003GD-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q3TETrgY015725 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:29:56 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3TETqtA016669 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:29:52 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt110.oracle.com (abhmt110.oracle.com [141.146.116.62]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q3TETq2Y026966 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:29:52 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.176.150) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:29:52 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Ac0mFIORoUPdUSsARbCC2IykQZ2jgg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:150133 Archived-At: This used to be in (elisp) `Coding Conventions' but was apparently removed for Emacs 24: * Please keep the names of your Emacs Lisp source files to 13 characters or less. This way, if the files are compiled, the compiled files' names will be 14 characters or less, which is short enough to fit on all kinds of Unix systems. Why was it removed? Does mean that there is now *no limit* and no suggested max for a Lisp library file name? I cannot find anything about this change to Lisp coding conventions in NEWS, but perhaps I'm not searching for it well enough. What's the story about this?