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: next emacs version? Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:52:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56D10E2523764AC98D99CEBC55DBAD93@us.oracle.com> <83iq8sigyq.fsf@gnu.org> <83d3z0i3nu.fsf@gnu.org> <911BA1D06CEB4306924D0069BA2D3DFF@us.oracle.com> <83bpeki18a.fsf@gnu.org> <85D696D9907C42A389AA65E4BC83CDD7@us.oracle.com> <351651D70D0E4A4A808A80FBF0119C4C@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269266049 12467 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2010 13:54:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:54:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 14:54:05 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 1Nti4q-0005rI-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:53:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nti4p-0005gY-Mw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nti3p-0005Ej-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:52:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60361 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nti3n-0005E3-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nti3m-00037q-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:18802 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nti3k-00037W-TK; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:52:48 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAFYTp0vO+IPa/2dsb2JhbACbK3S6R4R9BIsd X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,287,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="58795131" Original-Received: from 206-248-131-218.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.131.218]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 22 Mar 2010 09:52:48 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 02A6B660F2; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:52:48 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <351651D70D0E4A4A808A80FBF0119C4C@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:22:13 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (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:122471 Archived-At: > Yes, that code gets closer to expressing the real requirement. It gets > away from the bug and the bug-fix, which have no business being in > this font-lock code. Agreed. > My point before was that trying to manifest the bug in order to choose the > proper code path would be misguided and fragile (if it even worked in all > cases), especially since the bug is platform-dependent. I recommeded it, based on the assumption that the only alternative was to test the version number. Stefan