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: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:34:01 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <54BC18B9.50202@cs.ucla.edu> References: <838uh32gpg.fsf@gnu.org> <54B9D960.1000001@cs.ucla.edu> <834mrp24b1.fsf@gnu.org> <54BBF6E7.3090802@cs.ucla.edu> <83a91gymld.fsf@gnu.org> <54BC08B2.8070302@cs.ucla.edu> <837fwjzx5f.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421613269 1177 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2015 20:34:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 21:34:25 2015 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 1YCwYC-0004UM-RH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:34:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCwYC-0003VQ-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:34:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCwXy-0003TH-PG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:34:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCwXx-0000NZ-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:34:10 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:49423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCwXs-0000Mr-GQ; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:34:04 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6494539E801A; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:34:03 -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 n0dCL-gNSTlN; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:34:03 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-173-55-11-52.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [173.55.11.52]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D468F39E8016; Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:34:02 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <837fwjzx5f.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:181414 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > IOW, basically the request is to post a short note about things you > know anyway. The only extra work is composing the message itself. But as I mentioned, I don't know these things, as I don't look at the MS-Windows code when I make changes like that. It's not reasonable to expect developers to search all modules every time they make a change that could conceivably be modified and/or adapted and/or adjusted to some other module. We already have too much to do, and this extra bureaucracy's cost would outweigh its benefit.