From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed gnulib renames Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:15:03 +0200 Message-ID: <83y667wk7c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4D404396.9040600@redhat.com> <87tygvmxk5.fsf@meyering.net> <8339ofxzvk.fsf@gnu.org> <87r5bzlce1.fsf@meyering.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296069305 18849 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 19:15:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, bruno@clisp.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, eblake@redhat.com To: Jim Meyering Original-X-From: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 20:14:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiApW-0006s8-PS for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:14:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiApW-00085E-36 for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36635 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiApK-00083k-4I for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiApF-00046b-FL for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:14:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:60296) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiApF-00046K-69; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:14:41 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LFN00L009D8N300@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:14:39 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.46.39]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LFN00KSK9GCSVI0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:14:39 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87r5bzlce1.fsf@meyering.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:25003 gmane.emacs.devel:135045 Archived-At: > From: Jim Meyering > Cc: eblake@redhat.com, eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, bruno@clisp.org > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:59:18 +0100 > > Requiring doslfn solely for those *building* emacs on DOS would > allow the names of all C source and other build-only files to be "long". > To gain that benefit, users would *not* have to install doslfn. > > However, to extend that benefit to files loaded by emacs > at run time, they would. There's no reason to believe that file-name conflicts will be limited to C files only. C files in Emacs are added very infrequently, while Lisp files much more frequently.