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: Carbon port emacs-unicode-2 build problem under MacOSX Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:42:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <47305F6E.2030204@gnu.org> <4731D43F.3060007@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194497113 1030 80.91.229.12 (8 Nov 2007 04:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 04:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adrian.B.Robert@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 08 05:45:16 2007 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 4.50) id 1IpzGV-000257-7Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:45:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpzGK-0001ad-5D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:45:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpzDx-0008W8-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:42:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpzDw-0008Uo-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:42:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpzDv-0008Ug-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpzDv-0003rV-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpzDv-00082q-3D; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:42:35 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:09:50 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:82791 Archived-At: Richard wants the ChangeLog to be massaged in a way similar to what was done for multi-tty, and when this came up, everybody ran away screeming (there's about 280KB of ChangeLog entries on the unicode branch). It is important to have these change log entries in clean form. The most important part of the massaging is to get rid of duplicate entries. For instance suppose a function named foo is added and then changed 10 times. There will be 11 change log entries for it, but we we only need to keep one: "New function". Even when a function is not new, sometimes you can simplify its change log data a lot by combining entries. I don't insist on combining entries when it isn't a simplification.