Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()'

["Neil Jerram" <neiljerram@googlemail.com>]

2008/9/2 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>:
>
> What is the intended use case of running Elisp in GUILE ?  Is anyone using it
> for anything?

I would like to have the GDS elisp code, running in Guile, displaying
debugging information in Gtk (or Qt, or X) windows, without a full
Emacs present.

Why?
- I think it would be a cool hack.
- For small environments like the Nokia tablets and Openmoko, where it
might be tricky to have a full Emacs.

Will it actually ever happen and work?  I'm afraid I don't know.

>>> -;;;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> +;;;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>
>>> Can we do this in one fell swoop, adding 2008 to all files?
>>
>> I wouldn't do that.  I think updating the copyright year *when* a change
>> is made is better: it allows people to see at a glance whether a file
>> has been changed at all recently
>
> I think that
>
>  git log FILE
>
> is the reliable and precise way to check that.  The headers are so much
> boilerplate that I pretty much ignore all of them.
>
>> and avoids pointless commits.
>
> We could add 2008 to all files in a single commit, and avoid poluting
> diffs with header blah blah for an entire year.

FWIW, I don't have a strong view on this.  I'm happy with anything
that FSF are happy with, and that makes the job of updating the
copyrights easy.

     Neil