From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.auctex.devel Subject: Re: CVS repository synchronization for RefTeX Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:43:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87sley46bb.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> References: <87k60b7hv5.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167435812 3880 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2006 23:43:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:43:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: auctex-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 00:43:31 2006 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 1H0RNi-0006Lr-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:43:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0RNh-0002uI-I1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:43:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0RNY-0002tz-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:43:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0RNV-0002tn-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0RNV-0002tk-Ip; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.179] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H0RNU-0004n7-UQ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.165.37.156] (helo=neutrino.caeruleus.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML21M-1H0RNR3nL4-0003t2; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:43:06 +0100 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri\, 29 Dec 2006 17\:04\:08 -0500") X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:abf9ffac21f8345504ac40c53d3b40ba 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:64462 gmane.emacs.auctex.devel:1470 Archived-At: * Stefan Monnier (2006-12-29) writes: >> maintenance of RefTeX will likely be continued by the AUCTeX project. >> On the AUCTeX developers list it is currently being discussed how >> maintenance of RefTeX will be done in its own CVS repository. > > How 'bout using the Emacs-CVS as *the* repository of RefTeX? There will be standalone releases of RefTeX. That means files for building and installing RefTeX as well as files like README, INSTALL, etc. would have to be added to Emacs' repository. Those would mostly be superfluous in an Emacs release and would have to be excluded from pretest and release tarballs, unless they are considered only a minor annoyance. And we'll probably have to jump through some hoops for building documentation and putting it into a RefTeX tarball as reftex.texi currently is located in the man directory. Then there might be the problem that RefTeX is not in a releasable state at the time an Emacs release is about to happen. Suppose I would have had a major and risky change for RefTeX waiting to be checked in about a year ago and held it back because Emacs is about to be released. I'd probably still not have it checked in. Such a situation nothing I'd be looking forward to. Of course in an urgent case one can back out such changes, but if you can avoid it ... What about branching? IIUC CVS branches can only be created for a whole module. Would it be okay to create a branch for all of Emacs if one for RefTeX only were necessary? Another issue might be that it will be harder for people to grab the RefTeX sources from CVS if there is a fix they are interested in. At least with the current structure where the documentation is in a different directory they'd have to check out the reftex directory (to be created) and the documentation separately. If RefTeX is to be maintained in Emacs' repository I'd actually like to have all files (including documentation) in one dedicated directory. -- Ralf