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: BBDB v3 approaching release Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 08:34:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20899.5836.285028.24953@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87bo7wjt8x.fsf@gnu.org> <20899.46045.555853.245325@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <8761y42p2u.fsf@yandex.ru> <20899.49048.958776.655846@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20900.16723.858581.898946@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369744504 10808 80.91.229.3 (28 May 2013 12:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 12:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Gutov , Roland Winkler , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 28 14:35:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UhJ7F-0004Nm-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 14:35:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhJ7F-0005fL-AP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 08:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhJ75-0005TO-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 08:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhJ6x-0000dQ-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 08:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:13058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhJ6x-0000dH-OJ; Tue, 28 May 2013 08:34:43 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCpOt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAsOJhIUGA0kiB4GsR+QDpEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCpOt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAsOJhIUGA0kiB4GsR+QDpEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="14886325" Original-Received: from 76-10-147-173.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.147.173]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 28 May 2013 08:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BCF1467959; Tue, 28 May 2013 08:34:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20900.16723.858581.898946@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Tue, 28 May 2013 07:32:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159854 Archived-At: >> Maybe I am old-fashioned here: I had been thinking about releasing a >> tar ball that comes with a configure script and makefiles to compile >> and install BBDB. > Please do. Packages without a build system impose additional work upon > all distros. If the package follows the ELPA conventions, then it comes with a build system. Stefan