From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: config.in Date: 17 Apr 2002 14:08:19 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87g01vbhzi.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1018986015.10524.108.camel@space-ghost> <1676-Wed17Apr2002000044+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <87n0w3baqz.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> <4009-Wed17Apr2002074417+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019020331 9623 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2002 05:12:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ams@kemisten.nu, walters@verbum.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16xhjn-0002V6-00 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:12:11 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16xi2K-0008I5-00 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xhjn-0002vb-00; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.214]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xhh6-0002qH-00; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g3H58Pd13407; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:08:26 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g3H58OR02417; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:08:24 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g3H58MB22545; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:08:23 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g3H58Kg01902; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:08:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id CA2B237C8; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:08:19 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <4009-Wed17Apr2002074417+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 24 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2684 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2684 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > Should users use the CVS version of Emacs? > > We have anon CVS so they could. Quite a few do. But those that do quite definitely fall into the class of `unusually clueful users', even if they don't write any code. Such people are quite competent to install the auto* tools; it's not rocket science. In any case, the _purpose_ of the CVS repository is for development; it's nice that `clueful' users can also use it to get the latest sources, but that's a secondary purposes. The proper thing to do is to optimize the situation fo _developers_, even if it means a slight extra inconvenience for this special class of users. In any case (as I noted before) due to the the timestamp problem, `mere users' that use CVS are going to end up needing the auto* tools anyway, even if they never modify a single file, _even if_ the auto-generated files are in CVS. -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche