Re: Files from gnulib

[Stefan Monnier]

> The Emacs trunk already has seventeen other files
> with 2 dots in their file names, with names like
> lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el

I don't know how MSDOS handles names that start with dot, so either this
is a special case that's OK, or it's indeed a problem which we hadn't
noticed yet.

> and admin/charsets/mapfiles/symbol.txt.gz.

This one, OTOH is OK because the `admin' subdir is not included in the
tarball, so its name is irrelevant.

>> In addition, several file names in the m4/ subdirectory clash after
>> 8+3 truncation:
>> gnulib-cache.m4  gnulib-common.m4  gnulib-comp.m4

> Again, the Emacs trunk already has several instances of truncation
> after 8+3 limits, such as lisp/org/org-compat.el versus
> lisp/org/org-complete.el,

Good point.  I guess Eli hadn't noticed it yet.

> and test/cedet/semantic-ia-utest.el
> versus test/cedet/semantic-tests.el, and I don't see why
> files imported from gnulib would be different.

Here, again, the `test' subdir is not included in the tarball, so it's
not an issue.


        Stefan