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Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence somegcc warn
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Karl Fogel |
Subject: |
Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence somegcc warnings. |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:51:00 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>And Emacs users often want to or sometimes need to understand the
>source code, and sometimes across versions. And users who write Elisp
>code sometimes want to understand development changes within a given
>release cycle.
>
>Users deserve the source code, including its comments (which often reflect on
>implementation or design). Likewise its change logs (ditto). Users should not
>need to access BZR or any other v-c interface to get access to the change-log
>info. Delivering it as part of Emacs helps users. Beyond delivering it with
>Emacs, making it available via http also helps - as in
>http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git/tree/HEAD:/lisp (or
>http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/emacs/trunk/files/head%3A/lisp/, which
>doesn't work as well).
>
>Change-log info is meta-info about the code and its behavior, just like
>comments and doc and NEWS are. Please keep it accessible to users
>locally, as part of their Emacs installation/delivery.
If "users should not need to access BZR" to get access to change-log
info, then that is not an argument for storing the ChangeLogs in BZR.
It is an argument for generating a user-friendly web page straight from
the version control logs (thus "making it available via http") and doing
something simliar when building a tarball distribution (thus "delivering
it with Emacs").
-Karl
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence some gcc warnings., Romain Francoise, 2010/12/19
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence some gcc warnings., Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/19
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence some gcc warnings., Eli Zaretskii, 2010/12/19
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence some gcc warnings., Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/19
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence some gcc warnings., Štěpán Němec, 2010/12/20
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence some gcc warnings., Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/20
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence some gcc warnings., Chong Yidong, 2010/12/20
- RE: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence somegcc warnings., Drew Adams, 2010/12/20
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence somegcc warnings.,
Karl Fogel <=
- RE: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence somegcc warnings., Drew Adams, 2010/12/20
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence somegcc warnings., Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/20
- Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102688: Minor clean up to silence some gcc warnings., Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/20