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: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:41:56 +0200 Message-ID: <83tyycmkjv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837hv9neza.fsf@gnu.org> <8363asoov2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254854701 6364 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2009 18:45:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:45:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 06 20:44:50 2009 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 4.50) id 1MvF1G-0005h2-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:44:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41571 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MvF1F-0001y7-AW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:44:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvF14-0001rI-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvF12-0001ie-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:44:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53633 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MvF0z-0001iC-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:33463) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MvF0w-0000d7-LJ; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:43:58 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KR300I00VKBT100@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:43:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.224.43]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KR3007X1W186390@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:43:57 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:115940 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:16:38 -0400 > > As Miles has said, sed is already used, along with grep, throughout > the Makefiles. My problem is not with using Sed or Grep. My problem is with using them when Emacs can do the job more elegantly. > BTW, no real harm results if this change is simply never synced to > windows. If it was important enough to do for Posix platforms, it is important enough for all platforms, IMO. Otherwise, we should agree with Dan and remove this altogether in favor of the much simpler alternative he proposed.