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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: linum.el?
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:05:55 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myqlsla4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JKeVe-0007fP-Tg@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:51:38 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>     I've found that even "modular" new features can be pretty annoying in
>     merging to the trunk -- even if they start out the same on both the
>     trunk and branch, many files seem to nevertheless generate a lot of
>     merge conflicts.
>
> Most of the time I don't think we should make the decision about
> installing something in Emacs 22 just based on that.

Sure, but it demonstrates that even stuff which is apparently "safe"
may have repercussions if installed.

Some of the stuff installed wasn't very important, but installed simply
because there seemed to be no downside to doing so; I think increase
maintenance burden is a downside though.

-Miles

-- 
`There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'




  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31  9:40 linum.el? Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-31 15:47 ` linum.el? Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 23:58 ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2007-11-01  1:39   ` linum.el? Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]     ` <E1J6Y7I-0002zs-C9@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-12-26 16:09       ` linum.el? Markus Triska
2007-12-26 23:28         ` linum.el? Stefan Monnier
2007-12-27  0:06           ` linum.el? Juanma Barranquero
2007-12-27 18:24             ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2008-01-20 23:50               ` linum.el? Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-30  2:07                 ` linum.el? Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-30  3:03                   ` linum.el? Miles Bader
2008-01-30  3:18                     ` linum.el? Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-30 13:25                       ` linum.el? Miles Bader
2008-01-30 14:53                         ` linum.el? Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-30 17:01                           ` linum.el? Miles Bader
2008-01-30 20:52                       ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2008-01-30 21:00                         ` linum.el? Miles Bader
2008-01-30 21:27                           ` linum.el? Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-30 22:13                             ` linum.el? Miles Bader
2008-01-30 22:33                               ` linum.el? Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-31 18:51                           ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2008-01-31 22:05                             ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-12-29  7:22             ` linum.el? Stefan Monnier
2007-12-27 18:24           ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2007-12-29  7:26             ` linum.el? Stefan Monnier
2007-12-29 17:48               ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2008-01-02  2:12                 ` linum.el? Stefan Monnier
2008-01-03  9:50                   ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2007-12-27 13:42         ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2007-12-27 19:18           ` linum.el? Markus Triska
2007-12-28 13:55             ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2007-12-28 20:22               ` linum.el? Markus Triska
2007-12-29  7:31                 ` linum.el? Stefan Monnier
2007-12-29 13:51                 ` linum.el? Richard Stallman
2007-11-13 17:28 ` linum.el? Juanma Barranquero

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