Re: URL in Emacs

[Kim F. Storm]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> > Did you put a suitable tag on the URL repository to mark the versions
> > that you imported into emacs?  It isn't necessary to do so, but it
> > would make it easier to track changes that we might like to import
> > later on (in case the two copies divert later on).
> 
> No.  Among other things because I don't have write access to the
> URL repository.
> But I do have a tag on the url/url*.el file in Emacs whose name indicates
> the precise time at which I checked out the files, so (barring any
> concurrent commit in the URL repository at that time) you can retrieve that
> precise revision (and/or tag it) easily.
> 
> >From Emacs' point of view I consider URL as an "vendor source" tracked
> via the vendore branch, so merging from URL to Emacs should be easy without
> any need to worry about the precise version/date I checked it last time.
> Just follow the usual "tracking third party sources" procedure from
> the CVS manual.

Ok, but do you suggest that people continue working on url.el in its
original repository, or that they move their work to emacs CVS?

If work continues in the URL repository, I think we should refrain from
modifying it (at all) in the emacs repository to avoid import/merge
conflicts later on.

However, I would prefer if development continued in CVS emacs, so we
would avoid a "split".  What does the URL developers think about this?

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk