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: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:18:04 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56E076EC.8040606@cs.ucla.edu> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83bn6quugw.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2lbo4ba.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: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457551123 1247 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 19:18:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 20:18:32 2016 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 1adjcs-0005WK-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:18:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43622 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjcs-0008Pg-7q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:18:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjca-0008PD-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjcZ-0005DG-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:18:12 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:48222) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjcU-0005AV-2r; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B4A160E8D; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:18:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id lV_eB3E5cH88; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:18:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DAD9160F68; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:18:04 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id PleTzMgi8X0b; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:18:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 860C9160E8D; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:18:04 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: <83k2lbo4ba.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:201292 Archived-At: On 03/09/2016 11:10 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >Git can in fact be configured to recognize =E2=80=9Cfunctions=E2=80=9D= differently, >> >per file type. > Yes, I know. But how many people have done that, and how many of them > will be able to cough up the right regex for whatever language they > need? We don't need to do it for all languages, just for the languages Emacs=20 is written in. And people shouldn't need to cough up the right regex;=20 all they need to do is run "./autogen.sh all" or "./autogen.sh git". We=20 should get people into the habit of running autogen.sh that way, when=20 they clone from the repository.