From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rename and clean unexec.c Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83hbjjcxex.fsf@gnu.org> <87sk33pdpf.fsf@telefonica.net> <83aapbcoqs.fsf@gnu.org> <838w4vc7gs.fsf@gnu.org> <834oficgpf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280427598 895 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2010 18:19:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:19:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 29 20:19:55 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 1OeXhj-0000D6-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:19:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58085 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeXha-0005H9-H7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39447 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeXhU-0005Gs-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OeXhS-0008IG-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49547) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OeXhS-0008IC-54 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeXhR-0001Hj-Bp; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <834oficgpf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu\, 29 Jul 2010 20\:59\:08 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:127972 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: Dan Nicolaescu >> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:21:40 -0400 >> >> > Why is it so important to rename this file? >> >> For long term maintainability. >> Good, suggestive file names are good for maintainability. > > But we've been living with this file, in parallel with other unex*, > for ages. Why is it suddenly a problem now? What changed? This file was used before by other platforms that we've removed support for. It is now used by a single platform. Before we did not rename files because CVS could not do it right. I've worked very hard at removing decades of accumulated cruft, please don't stand in the way for no good reason.