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: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:15:43 +0200 Message-ID: <83vbj97f34.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mw4rxkzv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4oavxcy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d25juy8m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83iofa8lu2.fsf@gnu.org> <87twytg0m8.fsf@engster.org> <83wq3p7ki2.fsf@gnu.org> <87mw4lfz2q.fsf@engster.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423595779 15311 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2015 19:16:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eller.helmut@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 10 20:16:09 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLGI2-0004yH-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:16:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41476 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLGI2-0002To-9B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:16:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLGHy-0002S2-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLGHu-0002cC-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:54720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLGHu-0002c5-7A; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJK00500LHEVB00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:15:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJK005RHLIHSB50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:15:54 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87mw4lfz2q.fsf@engster.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:182832 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eller.helmut@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:36:45 +0100 > > "As one of the GCC developers working during the last ten years on > reducing the gap between GCC and Clang, I would suggest that Emacs > developers who are happy with Clang should just use it to improve Emacs > (I'm also an Emacs user!) and those that are unhappy with Clang should > just join the GCC team and help us such that in some years, GCC could be > an alternative. Anything else is just noise." [1] > > So it's all "just noise" unless I become a GCC developer. No thanks. Do you want me to show you similar quotes about bidi, from 12 years ago? Do you know how many false ideas were uttered when bidi was in design phase, and I didn't know enough about Emacs display to tell right from wrong? Just disregard that, and do what you think is right. That's what I did.