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: Next pretest Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:58 -0400 Message-ID: <87r5mhwstt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87mxx7s743.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4BC64473.9040106@cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271285550 31056 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2010 22:52:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:52:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ken Brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 15 00:52:27 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2BRa-00025O-Kl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:52:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38794 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2BRa-0005RK-81 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O2BRV-0005Om-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53885 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2BRS-0005KX-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2BRR-00083Y-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po33.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.94]:33065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2BRR-00083S-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014140.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.140]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po33.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o3EMpwEr013781 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5E42CC055; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4BC64473.9040106@cornell.edu> (Ken Brown's message of "Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:40:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:123671 Archived-At: Ken Brown writes: > On 4/13/2010 11:30 AM, Chong Yidong wrote: >> I plan to make the 23.1.96 pretest next Monday, April 19. > > There's still a pending Cygwin patch that I proposed a while ago: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-01/msg01128.html > > Could you apply that? In the future, please send patches to the bug tracker, so that they do not get lost. Thanks. In the previous email, you said > Even though Dave Korn's advice about libraries turned out to be > irrelevant for this issue, I still think it would be wise to follow > it. The attached patch accomplishes this. Could you explain what you mean by "wise"? Does the patch fix an actual bug (e.g. inability to compile), or is it just for cleanliness? If the latter, the patch should go in the trunk.