From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Install C source code for for debugging help
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:19:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v9tejjdv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cb04f23-5fa1-c866-41a8-60156d15936d@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:13:15 -0700)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:13:15 -0700
>
> It's all very well to say that the user can change the
> source-directory variable to some random location and then download
> a correct copy of the right version of the Emacs source to that
> location, but that can be a tricky thing to do correctly
Can you explain in more detail why is this tricky? AFAIR, Emacs
prompts for the directory in this case, and all the user needs to do
is type its file name at the prompt.
> If master is that close to a release, perhaps it's time to create an
> emacs-27 branch.
I will do that as soon as possible, yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 20:37 Install C source code for for debugging help Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 5:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 6:13 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-27 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 14:24 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 4:03 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 17:04 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-27 22:45 ` Fu Yuan
2019-09-28 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-28 2:14 ` Michael Rohleder
2019-09-27 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-28 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2019-09-28 2:06 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-09-27 15:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 15:47 ` David Ringo
2019-09-27 8:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2019-09-28 18:19 Angelo Graziosi
2019-09-29 6:56 ` Paul Eggert
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