From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:02:11 +0200 Message-ID: <834obofqyk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <0ybp5wzz95.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289448239 8207 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 04:03:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 05:03:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGOO9-0002Cy-CA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:03:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGOO8-00076V-Tr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:03:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41559 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGOO4-00076F-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:03:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGOO2-0003pl-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:03:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:50733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGOO2-0003pe-NL; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:03:46 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LBP00600CGEBU00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:02:09 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.249.126]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LBP006FRCJK7130@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:02:09 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <0ybp5wzz95.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132533 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:42:46 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > PS I don't recall seeing a compelling reason as to why configure needs > to be in the repository at all The reason is that if we don't keep it in the repository, everyone should have Autoconf installed. Whether this is "compelling", I don't know. > (src/config.in is needed by feeble platforms that can't generate it > themselves, but AFAIK this does not apply to configure.) True.