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: etags test is broken on MS-Windows Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 22:33:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83h9r0zc3c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y4kmdjmj.fsf@gnu.org> <831ti957wp.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp5s4uml.fsf@gnu.org> <555F740D.4030304@cs.ucla.edu> <837fs04egz.fsf@gnu.org> <87oalco1mg.fsf@igel.home> <83y4kg2yjc.fsf@gnu.org> <83wq002yct.fsf@gnu.org> <87fv6oo0h3.fsf@igel.home> <83vbfk2x9l.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnhcnym6.fsf@igel.home> <83pp5r3iij.fsf@gnu.org> <838ucf3dh8.fsf@gnu.org> <834mn339p2.fsf@gnu.org> <831ti7389n.fsf@gnu.org> <87oalbsgwl.fsf@igel.home> <83wpzz1qf8.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2vzsde4.fsf@igel.home> <83vbfj1k5c.fsf@gnu.org> <5560CE70.4040407@cs.ucla.edu> <83fv6n14cu.fsf@gnu.org> <55635150.60208@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432582443 15471 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2015 19:34:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 19:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pot@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 25 21:33:53 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywy8G-0006U7-Hx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2015 21:33:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44791 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywy8F-000076-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2015 15:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59246) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywy88-00006m-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2015 15:33:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywy85-0007a5-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2015 15:33:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:40370) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywy85-0007ZP-Ha; Mon, 25 May 2015 15:33:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NOX008007K4OJ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 25 May 2015 22:33:39 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NOX008NE7O3NK10@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 25 May 2015 22:33:39 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <55635150.60208@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186811 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 09:44:00 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: schwab@linux-m68k.org, pot@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I already said I didn't mind, although I don't think it's an > > improvement. > > Isn't it an improvement in the sense that it makes TAGS files portable between > MS-Windows and other platforms? Yes, it is, which is why I said I didn't mind. > That is, with the attached patch one can create a TAGS file on > GNU/Linux and use it on MS-Windows and vice versa, and it works the > same either way. We'll get the same result -- platform-independence of TAGS files -- if we use the Windows variant of the code, with the added advantage that the Lisp part will not be needed, and reading the data from TAGS will be slightly faster. But again, I don't mind it either way.