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: Emacs 22 branch created. Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:32:34 +0900 Organization: NEC Electronics Message-ID: References: <87d51uletj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <462E37B5.4080404@gnu.org> <462E698A.2010309@gnu.org> <462E759C.9060104@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177468397 10498 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2007 02:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:33:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 25 04:33:16 2007 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 4.50) id 1HgXJi-0002W4-Sl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:33:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgXPI-00071p-8U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgXPD-00071i-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:38:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgXPC-00071V-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:38:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgXPC-00071S-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgXJb-0005mp-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HgXJO-0005t2-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:32:55 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:32:54 +0200 Original-Received: from miles.bader by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:32:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fencepost.gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop Cancel-Lock: sha1:Trmw6Lyi4LsWnwmyzO5g8hmFBAY= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:70052 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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 -- In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. [George Carlin]