From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Romain Francoise Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CEDET merge question Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:21:22 +0200 Organization: orebokech dot com Message-ID: <87skex6skt.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> References: <87eiql2w5s.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87iqftzegt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252444912 20798 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2009 21:21:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 21:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 08 23:21:45 2009 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 1Ml88G-00031K-Hg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:21:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ml88F-0005Be-VK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ml88B-0005BP-KY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ml886-0005BA-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53492 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ml885-0005B7-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:21:33 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.4]:38683) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ml885-0002Jg-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:21:33 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46324C80C8; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:21:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from elegiac.orebokech.com (home.orebokech.com [82.67.41.165]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D107E4C811D; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:21:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by elegiac.orebokech.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C2363B13C; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:21:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: }9mYu,e_@+e!`Z-P5kVXa3\_b:hdJ"B)ww[&=b<2=awG:GOIM (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:41:06 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:115151 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > This is a practical matter: since CEDET is such a large and > complicated package, we shouldn't make changes directly to our > copy of it, apart from those that are necessary to adapt it to > Emacs' conventions and build system (which is what I've been > working on). Instead, changes should be applied first to Eric's > repository, then merged back into our tree. If it's so large and complicated that we can't handle it like the rest of Emacs, is it really a good idea to merge it in? I don't think we have any other packages where the rule is "make the change upstream first". That sounds like a liability to me.