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: rename and clean unexec.c Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:06:27 +0300 Message-ID: <838w4vc7gs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83hbjjcxex.fsf@gnu.org> <87sk33pdpf.fsf@telefonica.net> <83aapbcoqs.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280372857 15933 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2010 03:07:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:07:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 29 05:07:34 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 1OeJT3-0002dI-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:07:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeJT2-0006W3-NS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35559 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeJSx-0006Vy-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:07:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeJSw-0001sJ-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:54781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeJSu-0001rh-84; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L6A00C00TKLSQ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:06:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.53.180]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L6A00AMHTYNRM60@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:06:24 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: 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:127951 Archived-At: > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:55:45 -0400 > Cc: =D3scar Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> From: =D3scar Fuentes > >> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:13:16 +0200 > >>=20 > >> Speaking as someone who is getting familiar with the code base, = it is > >> useful to see a hint on the name about its platform-specific nat= ure. > > > > unexec.c is not DOS-specific. It is for any platform that uses C= OFF. > > It just so happens that MSDOS is the only one that still does. >=20 > Then let's call it unexcoff.c then so that it follows some kind of > rule like all the other unexec files. It's not very logical to ref= use > to change the least used one. Why is it so important to rename this file? I'm not against renaming in general, if there is a good reason. I just don't see any such reasons in this case. Without a good reason, renaming is just a nuisance, albeit a minor one.