From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs Subject: Re: RE : Re: Files from gnulib Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:29:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oc75t4tn.fsf@meyering.net> <871v41t04k.fsf@meyering.net> <831v40zunr.fsf@gnu.org> <83aaioxpw7.fsf@gnu.org> <87y668os2r.fsf@meyering.net> <87ipxbq0a4.fsf@meyering.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296048609 28966 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 13:30:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, roucaries.bastien@gmail.com, sdl.web@gmail.com To: Jim Meyering Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 14:30:04 2011 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 1Pi5RY-0003Vi-KV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:29:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58017 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pi5RX-0002OW-Nd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:29:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52416 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pi5RQ-0002NI-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:29:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi5RP-0005TL-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:29:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi5RN-0005Sd-7l; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi5RH-0008DS-U9; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:29:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <87ipxbq0a4.fsf@meyering.net> (message from Jim Meyering on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:09:39 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:135010 gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:24970 Archived-At: > From: Jim Meyering > Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, roucaries.bastien@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:09:39 +0100 > > Taking well-intended technical suggestions as a personal attack It cannot be anything else, when "technical suggestions" boil down to making the job of a fellow developer 1000 times harder for no good technical reasons, just because of "oh no, not that again" kind of irrationalities. The attack could be unintended, but any reasonable grown-up will realize that this is the result. > We are talking about process restrictions that you want to continue > to impose on the code of all developers The restrictions are minuscule. In my latest suggestion, rename only 3 *.m4 files, in a way that still keeps descriptive names. I wonder how much time will be wasted on bykeshedding that one. > We're trying to minimize or eliminate your burden, but you seem > unwilling to consider the slightest change. I suggested a compromise solution a few hours ago, which does, I hope, constitute a change, but have yet to see any response.