From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:24:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei0rolh1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QrZKN-0004HO-24@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:45:55 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I don't think there is a reason other than the fact that admin/ was the
> best place to put UnicodeData.txt (which is a 1.4Mb file that is not
> used directly by Emacs itself, and must not be changed apart from
> updating to new Unicode releases, so it doesn't make sense to put in
> etc/).
>
> Aside, but it's important: why do you say "must not be changed"? It
> is free -- it could be changed. We probably will never have a good
> reason to change it, so we will probably never change it, but that is
> not the same as "must not".
I used "must not" in the sense of "should not, unless you are insane".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-11 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 7:35 [23.0.90] No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el? Ulrich Mueller
2009-02-02 8:03 ` Glenn Morris
2009-02-02 10:33 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-08-07 18:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-08-08 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-08 5:56 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-08-08 8:14 ` David Kastrup
2011-08-09 1:44 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-09 5:07 ` David Kastrup
2011-08-10 0:25 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-10 16:01 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 16:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 16:58 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 17:36 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 17:48 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-10 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-11 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-11 18:24 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-08-11 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-11 20:18 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-12 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-12 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-09 7:10 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-08-09 8:02 ` David Kastrup
2011-08-09 8:21 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-08-09 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-09 9:41 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-08-09 15:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-08-09 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-09 9:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-08-09 14:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-08-09 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 0:23 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-11 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-08 2:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-08-08 4:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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