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: lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:34:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83aanyhrnz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283589266 21401 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2010 08:34:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:34:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Katsumi Yamaoka , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 04 10:34:24 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 1OroCe-0006Qh-1b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:34:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OroCd-0001I5-HH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57009 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OroCW-0001I0-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:34:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OroCV-0003mU-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm3.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.3]:63690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OroCV-0003mE-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost3.adm.correo ([10.20.102.124]) by IMPaqm3.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 2YSs1f00Q2h2L9m3PYaEy6; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:34:14 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.33.16]) by IMPmailhost3.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 2YaD1f0080LsqWj1jYaDSU; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:34:14 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 68B64661B8; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:34:13 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <83aanyhrnz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:52:16 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:129667 Archived-At: > FWIW, I don't understand why this file was added in the first place. > The commit message gives a reason, but I don't see how it justifies > this file in this single directory; it sounds more like personal > preferences, which should not be in the repository. I think it's a project-preference. So I think it's acceptable. > At the very least, the file should be marked as "no-byte-compile", or > something else should be done to avoid this warning. You could also argue that the byte-compler should know better than to try and byte-compile a file called ".dir-locals.el" which we hence know doesn't hold Elisp code (only Elisp data). Stefan