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Re: Emacs 27.1 released
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 27.1 released |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Aug 2020 22:21:09 +0300 |
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 21:07:05 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > How easily would people bump into this in real-life use cases? I
> > think the answer to that will tell how important is it to fix it in
> > Emacs 27.
>
> We have no idea. Most bugs are never reported; people blame themselves and
> try a different approach, or just blame Emacs in general. That's why it's
> important to fix bugs we find even absent any concrete evidence that it has
> affected anyone else.
That kind of abstract arguments don't help. So I'm left to my own
devices, and therefore please leave this change on master.
> >>> I'm uneasy with this, as it would indirectly affect many functions.
> >>
> >> Which many functions did you have in mind?
> >
> > Its callers inside Calc. Suppose there's some subtle issue with the
> > change, or some unintended consequence.
>
> Mind being more specific?
I just counted its callers, that's all. A change in a function that
has many callers could have unintended consequences beyond the
function itself.
> > OTOH, how probable is it to have a negative x here?
>
> The post-hoc probability is 1 because a user was affected by and reported the
> bug, but that's not the point: the erroneous simplification GCD(x, 0) -> x
> leads to trouble later on, as the report shows.
I thought you were going to help me make a better decision, but I
guess I was too naïve. Please leave this one on master as well.
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, (continued)
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/11
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Michael Albinus, 2020/08/12
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Phil Sainty, 2020/08/12
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/12
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/12
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Robert Pluim, 2020/08/12
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/12
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/12
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/12
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/12
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- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/14
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/14
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/14
- Re: Emacs 27.1 released, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/08/16
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