From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap deleted DOC-nnn file Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 08:32:50 +0900 Message-ID: <87fvxrepul.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <83vc6rb31c.fsf@gnu.org> <87vc6qdxfe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87li7kex0u.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368401581 1551 80.91.229.3 (12 May 2013 23:33:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 23:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 13 01:32:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UbflC-0005Jw-PS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 01:32:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45919 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbflC-0004lV-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 May 2013 19:32:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ubfl9-0004lQ-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 May 2013 19:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ubfl8-0000eI-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 May 2013 19:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:59914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ubfl6-0000e6-W2; Sun, 12 May 2013 19:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA5797095D; Mon, 13 May 2013 08:32:50 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2287E1A4F35; Mon, 13 May 2013 08:32:50 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:159538 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Deleting the old executables is of so little benefit that if anyone > ever finds it substantially inconvenient, that is a reason not to > do it. What I personally find inconvenient is that every bit of lint in the build tree eventually leads to a confused beta tester. And yes, I have had people tell me "I'm sorry, I had an old executable running for some reason", resolving a bug report. This has become a much bigger deal now that essentially all of our testers get their trees from VCS, and therefore typically repeatedly build in the same tree.