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: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el? Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:24:10 -0400 Message-ID: <87ei0rolh1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <18822.41538.150077.451125@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18822.52229.644385.706466@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20030.54198.935820.969776@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20031.31400.99411.903245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87fwlcnwvg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87hb5rkwak.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y5z1s1b4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313087080 16561 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2011 18:24:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 11 20:24:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QrZvn-0001jq-PN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:24:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrZvn-00074p-17 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57165) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrZvi-00074Z-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:24:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrZve-0004Bb-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.145]:49719) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QrZvV-0004A1-Gu; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:24:17 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp-128-36-14-148.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.148]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7BIOA76025598 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:24:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:45:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.145 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.145 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143145 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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".