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 05:31:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83zijz9og4.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481686430 30245 195.159.176.226 (14 Dec 2016 03:33:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 03:33:50 +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 04:33:47 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 1cH0K8-0006Ze-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 04:33:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45309 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cH0KA-0001ob-II for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:33:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34383) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cH0IN-0004EO-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:31:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cH0IJ-00065o-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:31:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cH0IJ-00065k-CR; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:31:51 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3245 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cH0II-0003FJ-HK; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:31:51 -0500 In-reply-to: <053170b4-0258-bf23-c20b-236be50c984b@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:39:23 -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:210434 Archived-At: > Cc: acm@muc.de, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:39:23 -0800 > > > I'm not sure this is relevant here. E.g., we distribute Emacs sources > > as a compressed archive, not as a set of plain-text files. > > That is merely an issue of efficient data transfer. We use a convenient > format (compressed tarball) that is universally understood to stand for > a set of source files, and it's OK to do that. My point is that providing compressed text files in the distribution doesn't violate the GPL or its spirit. Legal obligations are more important than efficiency considerations, so if compressing sources would violate the GPL, we would already be violating it.