From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs Subject: Re: RE : Re: Files from gnulib Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:14:32 +0200 Message-ID: <83aaioxpw7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87oc75t4tn.fsf@meyering.net> <871v41t04k.fsf@meyering.net> <831v40zunr.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296015273 9074 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 04:14:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, jim@meyering.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, roucaries.bastien@gmail.com To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 05:14:27 2011 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 1Phwlx-0001wX-RK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:14:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Phwlw-0004n5-PC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33840 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Phwlp-0004ld-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:14:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Phwlo-00082Z-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:14:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:65180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Phwll-000827-VR; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:14:10 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LFM0090037QL100@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:14:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.46.39]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LFM0092D3RJ8L90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:14:08 +0200 (IST) 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:134984 gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:24943 Archived-At: > From: Leo > Cc: Jim Meyering , 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?