From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.auctex.devel,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS repository synchronization for RefTeX Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:07:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k60b7hv5.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <87sley46bb.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167516442 29041 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 22:07:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: auctex-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: auctex-devel-bounces+gead-auctex-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 23:07:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gead-auctex-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H0mMI-0006kj-B8 for gead-auctex-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:07:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0mMH-00069n-RQ for gead-auctex-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:07:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0mMD-00068s-D1 for auctex-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:07:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0mMB-00068D-NP for auctex-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0mMB-00068A-IE; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.228.144.243] (helo=alfajor.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H0mMA-0003BS-Sn; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 551581CD47; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:07:04 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Ralf Angeli In-Reply-To: <87sley46bb.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> (Ralf Angeli's message of "Sat\, 30 Dec 2006 00\:43\:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: auctex-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion list for AUCTeX developers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: auctex-devel-bounces+gead-auctex-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: auctex-devel-bounces+gead-auctex-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.auctex.devel:1486 gmane.emacs.devel:64531 Archived-At: > There will be standalone releases of RefTeX. That means files for > building and installing RefTeX as well as files like README, INSTALL, > etc. would have to be added to Emacs' repository. Those can easily be put into the `admin' subdirectory which is not included in Emacs releases. > And we'll probably have to jump through some hoops for building > documentation and putting it into a RefTeX tarball as reftex.texi > currently is located in the man directory. Right, you'd have to do a bit of extra work to bring the various files from `admin', `man', `lisp', ... into a single directory when building the tarball. > Then there might be the problem that RefTeX is not in a releasable > state at the time an Emacs release is about to happen. Suppose I > would have had a major and risky change for RefTeX waiting to be > checked in about a year ago and held it back because Emacs is about to > be released. I'd probably still not have it checked in. Such a > situation nothing I'd be looking forward to. Of course in an urgent > case one can back out such changes, but if you can avoid it ... That's what branches are for. No problem here. > What about branching? IIUC CVS branches can only be created for a > whole module. You understand incorrectly. In CVS each file is handled separately (so to a large extent, the notion of "module" only exists in the documentation of CVS rather than in its code and behavior), so you can have separate branches on a file-by-file basis. It's generally saner to have the same branches on "every" file, but it's perfectly OK to have a branch only on a well-defined subset of the files, such as have a RefTeX-only branch on the RefTeX-related files. > Would it be okay to create a branch for all of Emacs if > one for RefTeX only were necessary? That would be OK as well, although not needed. > If RefTeX is to be maintained in Emacs' repository I'd actually like > to have all files (including documentation) in one dedicated > directory. That would probably not be an option. Although, starting from the Arch version of Emacs's repository, you could easily create an Arch archive for RefTeX which automatically tracks all the RefTeX files (and only them), and placed in a single directory or any other way you want. Stefan