From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnulib strftime imported into Emacs Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:29:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4D45F788.1020101@cs.ucla.edu> <83r5btg1td.fsf@gnu.org> <4D466C8D.2020102@cs.ucla.edu> <4D473584.6010205@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296513025 27958 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2011 22:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 31 23:30:19 2011 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 1Pk2GF-0001KC-Fj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:30:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pk2GC-0005bE-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:30:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42705 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pk2G3-0005Yo-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pk2Fz-0003f7-5S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:56573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pk2Fx-0003ee-Ay; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:29:57 -0500 Original-Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so2783269eyh.0 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:29:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WSqt1fl1ZuOG0IKS5ZGdcL6zNMMX5GJmEIbcM1PZ1jg=; b=u2eEL2+NnXAbc+MLTwF4h1Vk3Rb6Ctok4Dr0UpQUDA+oqUcDY8/1IO+kGnU8Qu7hAL P9ldVlQR1VmhHbRDiqACJlUDHCUsumLnKggUp2Mia18YmS8oicoQACO7VF2olqqOcxdU c5U/bJJg8RcUUdJeinCO9KEOacED9pAJx/JV4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qoEcVxtibRZ1sz9Got+dbnyDMw5gwnLXsAvReQKkRq8Labu8HerZiRyB5qmCzJ4r6m K2Ug7biMf2s1WWfjRhUbfAAi766gsGZwwMb5TbOzQHxNW1YMe6LQ2n64wxAPlRbqwI+F O2/7188qcv6szHeqrgApKqtRFOAM9ZJMchPPg= Original-Received: by 10.213.33.206 with SMTP id i14mr9222195ebd.80.1296512995736; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:29:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.36.11 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:29:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D473584.6010205@cs.ucla.edu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:135362 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 01/31/11 03:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> I'm talking only about changes that are known in advance to break >> some platform, and for which you are not providing the corresponding >> changes as part of the changeset. =C2=A0I'm asking whether it would be >> possible to talk a short while before committing such changes, > > Sure, I can send out some email when I'm coding up changes. =C2=A0It shou= ld > be easy to do that, as part of normal development. > >> when you already have your feature branch ready to merge onto the trunk. > > This part sounds too strict, though. =C2=A0Normally it takes quite some > time to prepare the change precisely for the trunk. =C2=A0I develop on RH= EL > 5.5 x86-64, but for nontrivial changes before committing I test on > several other platforms that I have easy access to, including at least > one non-GNU platform. =C2=A0I don't want to have to do that work multiple > times, as it takes far more work to prepare and test the changes > than it does to code them up. > >> If the change needs non-trivial corresponding changes in the Windows >> build process, I might indeed ask to wait a few days. > > This part worries me. =C2=A0Mainline Emacs development shouldn't be held > back because of a lack of resources to port it to Windows. I do not want to take part in the C coding, but I wonder if it would help you if other people had a checkout of your branch on w32 and at least could test it? Do you have tests for it that we could run on w32? (If you have it would be a small problem for me to run some tests on w32.)