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: No rule to make target `../lib/ignore-value.h' Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:03:08 -0400 Message-ID: <9qwqozpq5f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <51DBD2F2.5080205@gmx.at> <51DBE761.8020000@gmx.at> <51DC22D2.7040006@cs.ucla.edu> <0zmwpven1r.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83zjtvves5.fsf@gnu.org> <83txk3vcvn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373392995 19361 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2013 18:03:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 18:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 09 20:03:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UwcFw-0004YR-9o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:03:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwcFv-0007FC-TC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51141) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwcFt-0007F5-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwcFp-0008KT-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59317) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwcFp-0008KP-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:03:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UwcFo-0007zw-Bf; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:03:08 -0400 X-Spook: Hamas Defcon Sundevil industrial espionage kibo X-Ran: V/GPi*[9XO`Eo)jQ:xkuEzn3ACye^qIj&E.H;TXQI{].QfD]5:?u'd3X,!8'.c?yEvv>8\ X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83txk3vcvn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:53:16 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161781 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > How do you discourage volunteers from scratching their itches? >> >> Well, removing those files would surely do it. > > It's as easy to restore a removed file as it is to remove it. One can > even do that and keep the original file ID, so the history is intact. I was being flippant. Obviously, we can discourage things by stating that they are discouraged. No, we cannot stop people forking Emacs and doing whatever they want with the build system, but "we" can make policy decisions and say "no thanks, we do not want that code in Emacs".