From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC-SVN problem Date: 09 May 2004 09:16:15 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040508013158.GB7312@fornax.collapsar.net> <878yg4yppi.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <20040508022659.GC7312@fornax.collapsar.net> <87d65exxnl.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084108775 25790 80.91.224.253 (9 May 2004 13:19:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 13:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 09 15:19:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMoDH-00019U-00 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 15:19:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMoDH-0001Qj-00 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 15:19:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMoBx-0004iK-Bf for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 09:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMoBQ-0004bi-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 09:17:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMoAj-00049E-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 09:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.245.84.69] (helo=colo.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.33) id 1BMoAj-00048W-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 09:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by colo.agora-net.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 1BMoAB-0004oB-00; Sun, 09 May 2004 09:16:15 -0400 Original-To: kfogel@red-bean.com In-Reply-To: Karl Fogel's message of "08 May 2004 19:16:30 -0500" Original-Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22977 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22977 Karl Fogel writes: I haven't rethreaded this message, because it might be that the answer is simple and doesn't need to happen in a new thread. "the answer is simple: there is no simple answer!" (basically, if you were to write a HACKING file, it would eventually boil down to this, after first starting as a general policy, then over time being revised to add exception upon ever higher-ordered exception. :-) thi