From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (no subject) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:53:08 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030810000549.94627.qmail@web21310.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060607121 11253 80.91.224.253 (11 Aug 2003 13:05:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 11 15:05:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19mCMR-0001zB-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:05:19 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19mCTh-0004Rc-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:12:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19mCJ9-0003rT-1a for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19mCGx-000379-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19mCDO-0000sS-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19mCC4-0000D3-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:54:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19mCAe-0003t1-18; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:53:08 -0400 Original-To: In-reply-to: <20030810000549.94627.qmail@web21310.mail.yahoo.com> (shuki_duv@yahoo.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15879 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15879 (while file-exists-p target-file) ;; Remove the target before writing it, so that any ;; hard-links continue to point to the old file (this makes ;; it possible for installed files to share disk space with ;; the build tree, without causing problems when emacs-lisp ;; files in the build tree are recompiled). (delete-file target-file)) This is a hack for developers, and shouldn't be in the releases, in my opinion. For example, it trashes the .elc file permissions, not to speak about symlinks, etc. I think we need to keep this feature.