From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [mange@freemail.hu: grep-tree doesn't shell-quote-argument] Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:13:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874q0qudex.fsf@blarg.net> <4445033A.2030002@student.lu.se> <85u08phhzb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85lku1hfud.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145481305 32481 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2006 21:15:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: offby1@blarg.net, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 23:15:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWK0k-0005PH-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:14:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWK0k-0001kl-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJyz-0000mk-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJyz-0000mJ-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJyy-0000m8-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWK0A-0000Ig-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FWJyx-0006Nt-Tl; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:13:03 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85lku1hfud.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:09:30 +0200) 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:53107 Archived-At: Sure, but we generally need two things for evolution: a) a recipe to put into NEWS and antinews how to get back the old behavior (there are always people shouting for that on any change). b) sort of a migration path so that those people can actually be made to swallow the new way piece by piece. We do not, in general, insist on this much. All we do in NEWS and Antinews is document the change. We do not usually bother with "migration paths", not even for incompatible changes. This would not be an incompatible change from Emacs 21. It need not be mentioned in Antinews, but should be in NEWS. (I see that grep-tree is not in NEWS.)