From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Refactoring of emacs-lisp/autoload.el Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:11:50 -0400 Message-ID: <9hmyjg6gjd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20080812162333.GA7999@muc.de> <20080813141321.GD3010@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218644190 5943 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2008 16:16:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 18:17:22 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 1KTJ24-0006jB-2t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:17:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTJ17-0004LL-LP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTIyA-0002lp-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTIy9-0002ko-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39840 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTIy8-0002kh-Ue for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57450) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KTIy6-0003AN-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KTIww-00054R-T9; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:11:50 -0400 X-Spook: plutonium Abu Ghraib terrorism Firewalls MDA diwn X-Ran: R[rk]x>d6$*ps[zw2ao0D:",A4gf4={\h4m(LsAd/-~S6B'B>Iw>rr2uQ7vbZ@%O8NJU}P X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <20080813141321.GD3010@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:13:21 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:102408 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: > This isn't a feature change. At least, I'm doing everything within my > capability to avoid it being a feature change. Fair enough, it's not a feature change. I guess I misunderstand Emacs's version of "feature freeze". I thought the idea was to make as few changes as possible, to fix only specific, well-defined problems, in order to get the most stable and tested end product possible.