From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: newsticker-*.el files Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:30:42 +0900 Message-ID: <87k5gza1ql.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <200806082201.m58M142d000380@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212971474 30058 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 00:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:31:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulf Jasper , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 02:31:56 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 1K5VIg-0002VH-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:31:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44970 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5VHt-0007S7-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5VHn-0007QZ-UD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5VHm-0007NS-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:30:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44024 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5VHm-0007N2-6Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:30:58 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:48971) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5VHb-0001y8-5h; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.33.236.148.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.236.148] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1K5VHX-00007x-Qr; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:30:43 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B7BDE2F3E; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:30:42 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <200806082201.m58M142d000380@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:01:04 -0700") Original-Lines: 18 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:98741 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > The DOS port currently does not work, it has been approved for removal, > and you said that it might never be revived. > > Why do this work now, when it's highly possible that the uglyfied names > might never be needed? > > Why not do the renaming work at the time when the DOS platform is > brought back to life? An eminently practical solution. -Miles -- `Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)