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: newsticker-*.el files Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:35:19 -0400 Message-ID: <87prqq4tpk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <200806082201.m58M142d000380@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213018609 24553 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 13:36:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ulf.jasper@web.de, Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 15:37:31 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 1K5hXo-0003c3-B5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:36:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33196 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5hX1-0007Wf-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:35:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5hWv-0007Ue-Bl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5hWu-0007TZ-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:35:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55017 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5hWu-0007TN-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:35:24 -0400 Original-Received: from c-98-216-111-182.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.216.111.182]:10646 helo=furry) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5hWp-0000GA-Ux; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:35:20 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6FF2DC054; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:35:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:06:24 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:98799 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Why not do the renaming work at the time when the DOS platform is >> brought back to life? > > Why ask these questions time and again, when I already answered them > several times in the past? Here goes again: I'm asking not to make my > life harder if and when I find time to make the DOS port of Emacs 23 > work again. Doing all of the renames later will make it much harder, > especially since CVS doesn't cope well with renaming; doing it now > doesn't lose any CVS history, and doesn't require contacting all of > the package maintainers at once. > > The author agreed (in private email to me) to rename the files when he > has time. I trust him that the names he comes up with will not be > ugly, because it's his package. Let's leave the matter at that.