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: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el? Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:05:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83mxfewlmv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <18822.41538.150077.451125@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18822.52229.644385.706466@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20030.54198.935820.969776@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20031.31400.99411.903245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87fwlcnwvg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87hb5rkwak.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y5z1s1b4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkjf1z3r.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313172420 28741 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2011 18:07:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:07:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 12 20:06:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrw8F-0002Eb-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:06:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53520 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrw8E-0001DF-70 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:06:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrw8C-0001D9-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrw8B-0000ag-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:40889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrw89-0000aC-Sf; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LPT00J00U73V300@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:05:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.94.185]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LPT00IUFU9GU3I0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:05:41 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:143170 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:56:18 -0400 > From: Richard Stallman > 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.