From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Strange change in bytecmop.el Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:59:27 +0200 Message-ID: <85mzobzlvk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87sly54b2s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <85ek9o40hg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122258689 29424 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 02:31:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 25 04:31:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwskJ-00056N-Hm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:31:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwsmX-0005I9-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:33:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DwsmD-0005HL-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DwsmB-0005Ga-Uq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dwsk1-0004my-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DwsSr-0001Gr-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:13:09 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DwsHp-0003Im-TW; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id EDD381C4CD77; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:59:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:43:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41201 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41201 "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > Naturally. (featurep 'xemacs) means "here is an exception for the > sake of XEmacs". > > We don't have to make exceptions for the sake of Emacs. We are the > main line. > > That's a valid point. At the same time, it means that our code is > full of mentions of XEmacs. Sure. As long as we have code intended to run with XEmacs, calling it anything but code intended to run with XEmacs would be obfuscate. The only way around that would be to completely remove all such code. This does not make sense except where code has fallen out of active maintenance and nobody knows whether it is working, anyway. XEmacs, after all, does meet the criteria of free software. Forcing the maintainers of subsystems that are willing to support XEmacs to have different distribution paths for versions that also work with XEmacs would be quite out of proportion in my opinion. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum