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: [PATCH] automatically handle .xz suffix (XZ-compressed files), too Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bppqu051.fsf@meyering.net> <19007.10421.461887.630151@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87y6rkbgwe.fsf@meyering.net> <873a9snxe8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245729159 30023 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2009 03:52:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, jim@meyering.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 23 05:52:36 2009 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 1MIx3j-0000BU-6w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:52:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MIx3i-0004s7-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MIx3e-0004ru-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MIx3a-0004qm-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60141 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MIx3Z-0004qj-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38172) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MIx3Z-0005oa-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MIx3Y-0005iZ-OH; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:24 -0400 In-reply-to: <873a9snxe8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:41:51 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:111648 Archived-At: >> This still hasn't made it into CVS. I think it would be short-sighted >> to omit XZ support from 23.1, and the patch looks safe to me. > > Thanks for speaking up. > I too was surprised by the lack of response, > considering I posted about this three times, and even Cc'd > the two maintainers explicitly once. > > Had it not been for the problems at savannah, > I would have gone ahead and committed about then. > > Barring any objection, I'll commit this on the trunk in a few hours Please go ahead and commit to the trunk, but it's too late for 23.1. There is no need to be rigid in carrying out policies about what changes to install. To do a good job of maintaining Emacs doesn't require acting like government bureaucrats.