From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chad Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:30:46 -0800 Message-ID: References: <0ybp5wzz95.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289446308 2167 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 03:31:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:31:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 04:31:44 2010 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 1PGNt1-0008Su-Tj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:31:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGNt1-0001U9-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:31:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50062 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGNsv-0001U2-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:31:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGNsu-0006ly-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:31:37 -0500 Original-Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu ([18.9.25.12]:50394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGNsu-0006lf-L0; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:31:36 -0500 X-AuditID: 1209190c-b7ba9ae0000009f8-c2-4cdb63984c75 Original-Received: from mailhub-auth-4.mit.edu ( [18.7.62.39]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id 69.C2.02552.8936BDC4; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:31:36 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-4.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id oAB3VZdS021317; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:31:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.2] (c-71-231-113-235.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [71.231.113.235]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id oAB3VXou022513 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:31:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <0ybp5wzz95.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAARagHR8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:132532 Archived-At: On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > PS I don't recall seeing a compelling reason as to why configure needs > to be in the repository at all, so I still suggest just ditching it. In the past, it has been pretty annoying to deal with version skew in = autoconf, especially as different gnu packages required different = versions (typically a `new/old' split). I've no idea if this is a = practical concern today; I do notice that version skew comes up now and = then. I hope that helps, *Chad