From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why does make run git? Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:43:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83bmo00yw7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501789476 32004 195.159.176.226 (3 Aug 2017 19:44:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, tino.calancha@gmail.com To: Radon Rosborough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 03 21:44:29 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM2l-0007t2-Sh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 21:44:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM2r-0000Zd-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44075) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM1f-0008Ba-Sq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM1d-0000zA-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39614) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM1W-0000nU-95; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:43:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM1V-0003v2-J2; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:43:09 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Radon Rosborough on Wed, 2 Aug 2017 10:43:32 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217268 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > That is true but it's much worse to rely on the user using VC. Hooking > into the build process isn't foolproof, but it's much better than > hooking into every possible version-control package for Emacs, > including ones like Magit which aren't built in to Emacs. Not necessarily. We could make it a documented Emacs facility, which could be used by any repository, and all front-ends ought to call it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.