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: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:00:55 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <54BD4657.3010202@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> <54BC18B9.50202@cs.ucla.edu> <83y4oyycz8.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 1421690488 31515 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2015 18:01:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 19:01:28 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 1YDGdj-0000T1-Q3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:01:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDGdj-0004jG-9Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:01:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDGdW-0004iy-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:01:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDGdS-0000G4-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:01:14 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:37593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDGdO-0000Dt-UB; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:01:07 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9D139E801C; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:00:59 -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 N-AdXkJ+wOUV; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:00:59 -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 DACF139E8017; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:00:58 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <83y4oyycz8.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:181443 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Doing nothing means leaving the parts > you side-stepped to bit-rot and generate bug reports, Nothing is rotting here, as the code is working. No bug reports have been generated because of this longstanding practice. As the benefits of the proposed change to the practice do not appear to exceed the costs, I'd rather leave things be. > Leaving it to others to discover the places that were omitted, without > any guidance as to how to identify them is too error-prone No special guidance is needed, as the search heuristics are obvious. For example, if the change involves replacing strcat with stpcpy, look at all uses of strcat in the modules you're interested in.