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: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:09:12 +0100 Message-ID: <85odbxa7gn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> <20080101182742.GE3830@muc.de> <20080101.192802.05328072.wl@gnu.org> <20080103010807.GB13318@kobe.laptop> <85wsqqnfce.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85bq80mgut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85fxxbjjk2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85k5mmdp87.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85bq7xbptf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199725763 15907 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 17:09:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:09:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 18:09:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBvTo-0006Pq-U3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:09:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBvTR-0005lW-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBvSS-0004yg-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:08:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBvSN-0004we-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:08:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBvSN-0004wQ-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBvSM-0008RT-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.21]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018F04C296; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:08:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C761728EE05; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:08:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-007-060.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.7.60]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3CD3425E2; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:08:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id D882A1CCF8D9; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:09:12 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:22:02 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/5420/Mon Jan 7 15:34:42 2008 on mail-in-09.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:86494 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I don't see why you would need more than one tree to work with at any >> given point of time. > > I often work for example with 4 branches: the 22 branch, the trunk, the > unicode branch, and my own branch with its local hacks. I switch > between them often enough that using a single tree and switching within > the tree would be a real pain in the *** because of the need to rebuild > all the .o and .elc files after each switch. Hm? Why do you build Emacs in-place, then? I understand the need for 4 build directories, but do you really need 4 source directories? And even 4 repositories? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum