From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: about the byte-opt.el patch Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:50:05 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87hcoilt68.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <873b02tw7d.fsf@ambire.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183715429 26543 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2007 09:50:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fengli@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 11:50:27 2007 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1I6kSE-0002Xz-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:50:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6kSE-0003VV-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:50:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6kSA-0003Ty-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6kS8-0003T7-Gy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6kS8-0003T4-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I6kS7-0004WB-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-153-60.inter.net.il [80.230.153.60]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id IGS31387 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:50:04 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <873b02tw7d.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:46:46 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:74385 Archived-At: > From: Thien-Thi Nguyen > Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:46:46 +0200 > Cc: Feng Li , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > the latest Makefile.in (which does chmod +w on those files), Is this change really a good idea? It defeats the purpose of CVSREAD, doesn't it? Perhaps it is better to change autoload.el so that it can update even read-only files, and preserve the read-only attribute of a file after it's finished updating its autoload cookies. WDYT?