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Re: arch taglines for emacs
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Tom Lord |
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Re: arch taglines for emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:59:19 -0700 (PDT) |
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> From: various people
[in various messages, on and off list:
proposed alternative syntaxes for tags
affirmation that multi-line tags are ugly
possibility of using the
> /*arch-tag: 53bb84c6-dee0-46c6-a275-2db144993d89*/
]
I'll leave this pretty much up to you guys ("To:" line). Here's my
position and observations:
1) I think everybody now agrees that a strictly upward compatible
alternative tagline syntax is desirable.
2) It sure would be smart, imo, to help make emacs developers happy
given the size of the project, it's position within the GNU
project, and this early effort to try out arch by miles.
Basically, I think this is a good thing for the arch project to do.
3) An alternative syntax is pretty easy -- if need be, I'm sure we can
nail down what to do in that regard within 2 days of deciding too
and implement it within 5. There's no big need to back-and-forth
over the details until then or across multiple lists. Most of the
suggestions have been just fine -- to an extent, it's an arbitrary
choice.
4) I'm willing to do any of the following:
a) nothing (for now). You decide to use the current
`arch-tag:' syntax as shown above.
b) go into a quick design/merge cycle with miles to
put in a new syntax sooner rather than later.
c) put in a new syntax myself.
Obviously (c) is "least desirable" but, in absolute terms, it's
not that much work. (a) would be my choice by default but
(2) and (3) mean I'm happy to to do (b) or (c), too.
In favor of (a): going that route poses the least risk to my
degrees of freedom doing other changes to the "inventory" subsystem
of arch going forward -- but I'll qualify that by saying that I
don't see the risk of not doing (a) as huge.
So, tell me what to do to help keep Emacs folks happy. Your call.
-t
- arch taglines for emacs, Miles Bader, 2003/08/18
- Re: arch taglines for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2003/08/20
- Re: arch taglines for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2003/08/23
- Re: arch taglines for emacs, Tom Lord, 2003/08/23
- Re: arch taglines for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2003/08/24
- Re: arch taglines for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2003/08/24
- Re: arch taglines for emacs,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch taglines for emacs, Jonathan Walther, 2003/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch taglines for emacs, Tom Lord, 2003/08/24
- Re: arch taglines for emacs, Miles Bader, 2003/08/25
- Re: arch taglines for emacs, Tom Lord, 2003/08/24
- Re: arch taglines for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2003/08/25
Re: arch taglines for emacs, Juri Linkov, 2003/08/20
Re: arch taglines for emacs, Florian Weimer, 2003/08/21