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Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:20:09 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
I don't want to get into this discussion, but in case people wonder
where I stand, I fully agree with Eli's position below.
Stefan
> No, we are talking about making changes in infrastructure used by all
> platforms. Once someone decides to make such changes, making
> good-faith effort to do that in all parts of Emacs is part of the job.
> It could be done either by actually making those changes all over, or
> by asking platform maintainers to do the parts related to their
> platforms. In the latter case, the platform maintainers should have
> enough information about the proposed change to be able to do their
> parts without investing too much time and effort where the initiator
> can help them avoid that.
> For example, in the recently discussed changeset that uses CALLN for
> some C-level calls to Lisp APIs, the information that should be passed
> to platform maintainers is how to identify the offending calls. This
> information is clear to the person who initiated the change and it's
> possible to describe it in a sentence or two. I have hard time
> understanding how this kind of requirement could be described as
> impossible or hard to comply.
- Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes, (continued)
- Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes, David Kastrup, 2015/01/21
- Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/01/21
- Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes, David Kastrup, 2015/01/21
- Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/01/21
- Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/01/21
- Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes, David Kastrup, 2015/01/21
- Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/01/21
- Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes,
Stefan Monnier <=