From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CEDET merge Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:55:41 -0400 Message-ID: <871vlr7y3m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87hbun9jbs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <19136.62172.620142.447740@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254160564 6042 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 17:56:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:56:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 28 19:55:57 2009 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 1MsKS3-0003PU-NT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:55:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsKS3-0003Y3-6B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsKRy-0003Xw-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsKRt-0003We-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:55:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55868 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsKRt-0003Wb-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:55:45 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po32.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.88]:58901) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsKRs-0000Lp-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014244.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po32.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n8SHtfR9021632 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9A512C070; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:55:41 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <19136.62172.620142.447740@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:31:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:115728 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller writes: > Was this renaming of files really necessary? It breaks backwards > compatibility and imposes additional work on package authors and > distros. No one suggested any other solution to the filename problem. Maybe we could get around this by adding a `cedet-compat' package that loads everything everything in CEDET and provides all the old CEDET feature names; then loading this file will provide everything a third-party package needs to compile.