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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, jim@meyering.net,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	roucaries.bastien@gmail.com
Subject: Re: RE : Re: Files from gnulib
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:14:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83aaioxpw7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1pqrkgzcq.fsf@cam.ac.uk>

> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>,  roucaries.bastien@gmail.com,  eggert@cs.ucla.edu,  bug-gnulib@gnu.org,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:42:13 +0800
> 
> On 2011-01-26 02:48 +0800, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > You are talking about costs?  How about _my_ costs -- the need to
> > endure these endless "why-don't-you-go-away-with-your-stupid-DOS"
> > discussions?  Here's Miles again, asking his perennial "how many users
> > are there", here's Leo inventing "loads of weird files" that somehow
> > are the fault of supporting the DOS port, here's Ulrich Mueller
> > reminding me that I asked for eliminating file-name clashes in
> > CEDET (in Oct 2009!)...
> 
> Please don't take that personally.

Everything is personal in this world.  People who don't take things
personal are people you should stay away of.

> People are annoyed by 8+3 not by you
> and we users value very much your tireless and long-term contribution to
> Emacs. The thing though is 8+3 is on everybody's mind so they will
> unconsciously name files that way even in cases difficult to do so.

Well, let your consciousness kick in.

> BTW, what I meant by weirdly-named files are, for example, those c.el,
> dired.el etc in cedet. One has to look at its enclosing directory to
> guess what it does.

And cedet-dired.el is more helpful how?



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-26  4:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25  8:20 RE : Re: Files from gnulib Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-25 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 14:51   ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-25 15:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 16:32       ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-25 18:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26  0:45           ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26  6:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26  6:41               ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26  2:42           ` Leo
2011-01-26  4:14             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-01-26 10:52               ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 12:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:09                   ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 13:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 16:50       ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-01-25 18:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 19:31           ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-01-25 19:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 20:00               ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-01-25 20:09                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 19:52           ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-25 20:19             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 19:04         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 19:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 22:37       ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26  3:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 11:02           ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 11:52             ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 11:58               ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 13:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 12:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:33               ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 13:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 15:26                   ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 15:46                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 15:57                       ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 18:56                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 14:35                 ` Andy Moreton
2011-01-26 15:31                   ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 18:28                     ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26 18:59                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 10:54                   ` Simon Josefsson
2011-01-28  2:27                     ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-23 11:36             ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2012-08-23 16:23               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 16:03     ` RE : " Leo
2011-01-25 17:16       ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26  2:33         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-01-26  7:18         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-01-26 16:15           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-27  3:08             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-01-25 18:05       ` Eli Zaretskii

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