Re: Emacs 22 branch created.

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Maybe just ADD the desired name ..._RC
> without removing the undesired name ..._BASE.

The problem is that the "undesired name" is quite misleading; I wouldn't
be surprised if just leaving it as an alias would cause further grief
later...

>     I've found mention on the web that it won't DTRT for files in the Attic. 
>     Since we've deleted python.el from the branch, it might be too much of a 
>     risk to change the tag names now.

If just one file is problematic, it could probably be fixed up by hand.

[What's the "risk", anyway?]

-Miles

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