From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:47:15 +0900 Message-ID: References: <86bpf7q3fc.wl%lluis@ginnungagap.pc.ac.upc.edu> <87wrxvyijr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B8C42E2.3080308@siege-engine.com> <7697A57B1AD9104F993CDF6A5B69430C09227D1F24@CORPMAIL08.corp.capgemini.com> <7697A57B1AD9104F993CDF6A5B69430C09225DFF6E@CORPMAIL08.corp.capgemini.com> <87eik2bt9m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871vg2y8pc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y6iaii3o.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87sk8ivyl3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267591664 24194 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2010 04:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 04:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Berndl, Klaus" , Llu@gwyn.tux.org, Chong Yidong , =?iso-8859-1?Q?=EDs?= , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , Stefan Monnier , "Eric M. Ludlam" To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 05:47:39 2010 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 1NmgUk-0006ip-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:47:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57147 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmgUj-0008AT-T5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NmgUe-0008AJ-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:47:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32895 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmgUc-0008A5-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:47:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmgUb-0001lR-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:47:31 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:57570) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmgUb-0001l2-CK; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o234lGAw000653; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:47:16 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:47:16 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.113.157] [10.114.113.157]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:47:16 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 1F30F52E1FF; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:47:16 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87sk8ivyl3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:06:00 +0900") Original-Lines: 21 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:121588 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > What I am asking for is examples where somebody said (as Juri Linkov > just suggested to Klaus Berndl) "hey, XEmacs has implemented a good > solution already; let's see if we can get papers for it!" Or "hey, > libfoo has some code that does this, let's see if we can get papers > for that." Why is it useful to know this? Even if nobody ever has, there are many reasons why that may be the case (laziness/"i-wanna-write-it"/hard-to-port/sucky-code/etc). Chong addressed what seems to be the relevant question, which is whether there's a irrational bias against using xemacs code merely because it's from xemacs. -Miles -- Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.