From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: CEDET sync Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:45:28 -0500 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267555664 7760 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2010 18:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llu=EDs?= , "Eric M. Ludlam" To: "Berndl\, Klaus" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 02 19:47:39 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 1NmX86-0005lu-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:47:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36976 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmX85-0006Av-Rw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NmX63-0005Q9-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54172 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmX62-0005Pi-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmX62-0000WM-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:43249 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmX61-0000WI-V1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:45:29 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAPPrjEvO+JkM/2dsb2JhbACbAXTAA4R7BIMXh3E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,568,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="57299591" Original-Received: from 206-248-153-12.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.153.12]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 02 Mar 2010 13:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F0FDD8205; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:45:28 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <7697A57B1AD9104F993CDF6A5B69430C09225DFF6E@CORPMAIL08.corp.capgemini.com> (Klaus Berndl's message of "Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:59:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:121563 Archived-At: > well, If i remember right, i have i mind that RMS told me some years > ago that "we do not want have XEmacs code in our > code-base"... therefore i thought that packages have to be stripped > concerning their XEmacs-code before merging into Emacs... but maybe > i have misunderstood this...... Well, we like our code as clean as possible, without compatibility hacks (neither for XEmacs nor for older Emacsen). But we also want to avoid forking between a package's "external" version and Emacs's own, so we accept compatibility code. The only case where we've been known to be more reticent is when the compatibility code is in a separate file, in which case it seems easy enough to keep the file outside of Emacs. Stefan