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Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:45:21 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:12:34 +0900
> > Cc: martin rudalics <address@hidden>, Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,
> > address@hidden
> >
> > I just hate to see people arguing that code that's in a project
> > should stay just because it's already in. That always has the
> > effect of making it harder to conduct such experiments in the first
> > place!
>
> A major surgery of one of the Emacs core functionalities, whose
> development was encouraged by the head maintainers and whose merge
> onto the trunk was explicitly sanctioned by them, is no longer an
> ``experiment''. It was an experiment only as long as it was on a
> separate branch. Now it's much more than that.
I'm sorry you take it that way, but it should be clear from reviewing
the context that the word "experiment" was not a description of the
code itself at all! Use of a modern VCS makes experimenting with code
very cheap, regardless of maintainer encouragement. Discouraging
"unsanctioned" coding "experiments" is not what I'm talking about here.
Rather, *merging onto the trunk* is always an experiment, ie, a test
of the proposition that the code in its current form will improve
Emacs for the community as a whole. There's no disrespect toward code
*or* maintainers intended, just an acknowledgement of the fact that we
don't know with certainty whether a particular merge will successfully
improve the project until we try it.
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, (continued)
- RE: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Drew Adams, 2011/07/27
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Chong Yidong, 2011/07/28
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/07/31
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, martin rudalics, 2011/07/27
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Juri Linkov, 2011/07/27
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/27
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/07/27
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/28
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/28
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/28
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/29
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/29
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/29
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/30
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/30
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, David Kastrup, 2011/07/30
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/30
- Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/31