Re: Shrinking the C core

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> For veteran and stable code such as this one, we should not rewrite
> them in Lisp just because we can.  We should have much more serious
> and good reasons for such changes.

Well, that's awkward.  I think I have a serious and good reason to
shrink the core as much as possible, but it's one I'm not yet prepared
to talk about because I don't want to over-promise.  I was hoping I
could sneak up on it with a bunch of safe, small changes.

>       Even the simple change you did a few days ago broke the build
> on one system and raised a couple of issues some of which are not yet
> resolved, and others we don't even have a good way of resolving except
> by bracing for bug reports.

I want to understand the failure better, then, so I can avoid
repeating it.  What build broke, and how?  What remaining issues are
there?

(I did of course test te chane with a make bootstrap.)

> So please let's not do that without such reasons.

Noted.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>