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: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:18:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a943umku.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ppcvm7fj.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87vbmndk46.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wq72ls2h.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87k332lnn3.fsf_-_@ferrier.me.uk> <83fvdpn30d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415726334 11277 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2014 17:18:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 18:18:46 2014 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 1XoF5a-0002rB-9I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:18:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoF5Z-0001wB-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoF5P-0001vN-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoF5H-0005HO-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:18085) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoF59-0005CL-68; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:18:19 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au0MAOatTlRLd+sd/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIxALNBIUGA0kiEsJy3IBAQEHAQEBAR6RCAeESwWLZI0vBZkIgW+CNIFiH4J6AQEB X-IPAS-Result: Au0MAOatTlRLd+sd/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIxALNBIUGA0kiEsJy3IBAQEHAQEBAR6RCAeESwWLZI0vBZkIgW+CNIFiH4J6AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,797,1406606400"; d="scan'208";a="96649121" Original-Received: from 75-119-235-29.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([75.119.235.29]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 11 Nov 2014 12:18:18 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2193E66100; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:18:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83fvdpn30d.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:57:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:176765 Archived-At: >> Note that there is a fair bit a pressure to *add* rather than remove >> magic steps (the first candidate in the list is to build the *.info >> files from the *.texi files). > I hope we will be able to resist that pressure. Why? Having to keep the .info files in the Git is not good. Stefan