From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Annoyingly cautious make rules Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:53:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83ehwnc97k.fsf@gnu.org> <4ED917E2.7020807@cs.ucla.edu> <4ED94331.7030702@cs.ucla.edu> <4ED98EED.5020301@cs.ucla.edu> <4EDA8356.50609@cs.ucla.edu> <4EDBC285.9020408@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323053635 7895 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2011 02:53:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 02:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, Stefan Monnier , eliz@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 05 03:53:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXOgd-0002fa-9H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:53:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXOgc-0007ut-C0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:53:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXOgZ-0007uo-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:53:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXOgY-0003Wc-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXOgY-0003WY-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXOgW-0001hB-TP; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:53:40 -0500 X-Spook: cracking hackers passwd data haven Ceridian morse X-Ran: I{>7?Yf\_*qp-PaPsUR:L}kj%%os"},n{31A@pyXQuS>/8j X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <4EDBC285.9020408@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:57:09 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:146485 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > admin/make-tarball.txt step 5 says that when making a pretest or > release tarball, one should edit configure.in so that maintainer-mode > is off by default. It means, or was meant, to say, _maybe_ one should do that. The issue had not been decided at the time that was written, so that note was really intended as a reminder to think about the issue before the next release. Based on the cited discussion from March, personally I think it is more correct to leave it on even in release tarfiles, so that note could just be deleted now.