From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files from gnulib Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:37:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83y66bzuhc.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C81A1.70009@cs.ucla.edu> <83ipxfymox.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3E0A8E.1030400@cs.ucla.edu> <8362tdzl7m.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3E8E4C.1010000@cs.ucla.edu> <4D3F1171.5010201@cs.ucla.edu> <83y668yfgt.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3F3F7B.40402@cs.ucla.edu> <83ipxcy6xw.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3F70B8.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <83d3nkxq31.fsf@gnu.org> <87oc73q5nr.fsf@meyering.net> <87d3njpzmg.fsf@meyering.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296049166 31916 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 13:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jim Meyering Original-X-From: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 14:39:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-bug-gnulib@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 1Pi5aa-0008D8-Le for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:39:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60226 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pi5aa-0007hj-0T for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:39:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41951 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pi5Yw-0006lo-Ei for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:37:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi5Yv-000825-5n for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:37:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:46036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi5Yv-00081z-4L; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:37:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi5Yq-0000Dm-SB; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:37:24 -0500 In-reply-to: <87d3njpzmg.fsf@meyering.net> (message from Jim Meyering on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:23:51 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:24975 gmane.emacs.devel:135015 Archived-At: > From: Jim Meyering > Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, cyd@stupidchicken.com, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:23:51 +0100 > > There would be a rule (always run at least by "make dist") that would > update config.bat. You could conceivably just run that rule, which > would surely be very quick. You would not have to run the full "make dist". You cannot run "make ANYTHING" before config.bat, because the latter edits Makefile.in files into Makefile files. > You're presuming that people will be adding new files with conflicting > name, but without updating the renaming rules required for DOS. > That's where the automation comes in. You cannot maintain the DB or renaming automatically, unless you are willing to settle for meaningless file names. > That would make it the responsibility of each person adding a new > conflicting file to tend to this small infrequent task, not you. People don't care about this now (and I cannot and don't blame them). Why would they care more under this new scheme?