From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checking in files with trailing white space Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:32:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83wpf2a5mf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20161211133110.GB14084@acm.fritz.box> <20161212221642.GA4361@acm.fritz.box> <83wpf4bj26.fsf@gnu.org> <366009d8-72f4-2f85-103c-214a5e111e77@cs.ucla.edu> <83oa0fbyx6.fsf@gnu.org> <8360mnbqnz.fsf@gnu.org> <053170b4-0258-bf23-c20b-236be50c984b@cs.ucla.edu> <83zijz9og4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481729651 32657 195.159.176.226 (14 Dec 2016 15:34:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 16:34:02 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cHBZB-0006rY-0n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:34:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHBZF-0000Zo-AT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHBYW-0000Gv-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:33:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHBYO-0002Nb-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:33:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHBYO-0002NW-Ng; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:33:12 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3559 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cHBYN-0004sw-Rl; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:33:12 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:47:02 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210454 Archived-At: > Cc: acm@muc.de, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:47:02 -0800 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > providing compressed text files in the distribution > > doesn't violate the GPL or its spirit. > > Sure, but we are talking about binary data files that are in the repository, > which is not the same thing. Most of these files are not in .gz form; they are > typically object files (in the GPL sense) of some other sort. Which files are those? A gzip-compressed file was the only example you brought up, but now you are saying it isn't representative, so I'm unsure which files exactly are the case in point. > Even if we restrict our attention to the repository's compressed text files, > there seems little point to compressing a file before putting it into the > repository. Depends on the compression method, I guess. For some of them, we cannot rely on the respective tools being available, so if that particular kind of compression is needed for some test, having the source file might not be good enough. (This is all theoretical at this point, of course.)