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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:32:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BFE299.3060600@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d268w2w9.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>          it still works, in the places where the MS-Windows code still uses strcat
>>          instead of stpcpy.
>>
>>      Beg your pardon, but how do you know this?
>>
>> Because I made an extra effort to check, as part of following up this conversation.
>
> Which changeset did you check?

I looked at the the version of the master current as of when I wrote the email.

> _After_ we know that the changeset had to deal with strcat following
> strcpy, yes, it's a simple thing to find those places.

Great, then you can do this simple thing, whenever you find it convenient.  It's 
not urgent, and it can be omitted entirely for changes like this.

> We all have our
> personal preferences, but we shouldn't go after fellow developers
> whose preferences are different.

Exactly, and for several days you have been going after me, asking me to do 
nonessential drudgework to help polish up the MS-Windows code.  I prefer not to.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-21 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-16  9:54 Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-17  3:39 ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-17  8:34   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-18 18:09     ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-18 18:23       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-18 19:25         ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-18 19:50           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-18 20:34             ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-19 16:03               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-19 18:00                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-19 18:32                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-19 22:14                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-20 16:32                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-20 21:28                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-21 15:48                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-21 17:32                             ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-01-21 17:55                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-21 19:39                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-21 20:07                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-21 20:38                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-21 20:08                                   ` David Kastrup
2015-01-21 20:49                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-21 20:57                                       ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22  3:53                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-21 20:30                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-21 20:49                                     ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22  3:51                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-22 14:20                                         ` Stefan Monnier

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