"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
> Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>:
>> We should stop maintaining anything in our tree that is "the same as"
>> what's now in Emacs ("the same as" == "a branch of", "an earlier
>> version of", etc). But any unrelated packages in our tree that just
>> happen to do the same job should be left right where they are,
>> assuming our copy is the master. I think we have both kinds.
>
> Of course. I was thinking mainly of the rather nasty vc-svn.el you guys
> forked from an old version of the VC CVS support. It won't even work
> anymore, not since I changed the back-end API to know about filesets.
It has this note at the top:
;;; #########################################################################
;;; ## ##
;;; ## NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE MASTER VERSION OF VC-SVN.EL ##
;;; ## ##
;;; ## The canonical vc-svn.el now lives in the FSF Emacs tree, at ##
;;; ## http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/vc-svn.el. ##
;;; ## The version here is maintained only because it is compatible with ##
;;; ## older releases of Emacs, since (as of this writing) the one in the ##
;;; ## FSF tree hasn't made it into an official release of Emacs yet. ##
;;; ## Eventually it will, though, and sometime after that the version ##
;;; ## here will go away. ##
;;; ## ##
;;; #########################################################################
So I think we're okay.
> I'll tilt at this windmill a bit. On the one hand, nobody's chances of
> budging RMS when he's got his stubborn on can really be called good --
> but on the other hand my track record at it is, relative to most
> who've tried, pretty strong.
Good luck!
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Received on Wed Oct 10 22:53:28 2007