From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding. Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:30:39 +0200 Message-ID: <835z2xfgm8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zh0mmr54.fsf@gmail.com> <20210203221628.xgvvxjvh56gyswba@Ergus> <20210204070033.pm4ido4hq7a6twif@Ergus> <83sg6brhyg.fsf@gnu.org> <5588fb25805d486be704@heytings.org> <5588fb2580d7e46863dd@heytings.org> <5588fb2580f248753c30@heytings.org> <5588fb25800032b1a06a@heytings.org> <993b9ce74de32c5450c3@heytings.org> <329d68a5ed872ee02e63@heytings.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34676"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: gregory@heytings.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 12 16:36:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lAaUP-0008w9-Bn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:36:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37766 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAaUO-0002OS-DG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:36:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAaP4-0005wz-Mm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:30:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAaP4-0007QK-4y; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:30:42 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4809 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lAaOw-0006rc-7u; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:30:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:264521 Archived-At: > From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:11:40 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > This solves moving things around, and constantly breaking things for > > people. > > Is it not a slight exaggeration to say that Emacs is "constantly breaking > things"? > > Is it? The build was just broken just recently. The risk of breaking things is an inherent part of any development. The master branch should not expected to be stable. People who track the master branch should expect the build to be broken, and should not treat such breakage as a reason to reprimand the Emacs developers.