From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:05:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mxfewlmv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Qrvxy-0002yS-4X@fencepost.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:56:18 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> This would be an inconvenience to redistributors. Simply including
> admin/ in the source tarball is just an extra 4 Mb (unzipped), which
> doesn't seem unreasonable. So I prefer to go that route.
>
> I have nothing against it.
But do we really need to distribute the Unicode database, and every
other similar data file? These days they are freely available from
their original creators, and in fact the connectivity to those sites
is better than to the GNU sites. Why should we need to bloat our
tarballs by these data files? They are not software.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-12 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 7:35 [23.0.90] No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el? Ulrich Mueller
2009-02-02 8:03 ` Glenn Morris
2009-02-02 10:33 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-08-07 18:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-08-08 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-08 5:56 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-08-08 8:14 ` David Kastrup
2011-08-09 1:44 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-09 5:07 ` David Kastrup
2011-08-10 0:25 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-10 16:01 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 16:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 16:58 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 17:36 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 17:48 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-11 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-11 18:24 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-11 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-11 20:18 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-12 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-12 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-08-09 7:10 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-08-09 8:02 ` David Kastrup
2011-08-09 8:21 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-08-09 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-09 9:41 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-08-09 15:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-08-09 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-09 9:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-08-09 14:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-08-09 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 0:23 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-11 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-08 2:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-08-08 4:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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