From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
Cc: 49786@debbugs.gnu.org, ioannis.kappas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#49786: 28.0.50; [PATCH] package-install shouldn't change default-directory
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:09:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tukbovz7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tukbh6vo.fsf@dick> (message from dick on Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:41:15 -0400)
> From: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ioannis Kappas <ioannis.kappas@gmail.com>, 49786@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:41:15 -0400
>
> EZ> The 'mac' encoding is documented in the ELisp manual. Please don't remove
> EZ> its testing here.
>
> Ah, so it does. I'm rather content to let the OS9 diehards stew in
> their own obsolescence. There's no telling what else doesn't work on an OS
> that was last released in the twentieth century. But it's impossible to
> disabuse the maintainer of the maintainer ethos: "preservation above-all" [1].
The 'mac' encoding is not about that old OS, it's about documents
written on that OS. The documents can outlive their OS by many
decades.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-31 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-30 19:12 bug#49786: 28.0.50; [PATCH] package-install shouldn't change default-directory dick
2021-07-30 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 20:41 ` dick
2021-07-31 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-30 20:50 ` Ioannis Kappas
2021-07-31 1:27 ` dick
2021-07-31 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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