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Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()'
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()' |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:40:15 -0300 |
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Ludovic Courtès escreveu:
>> On a tangent, is anyone still seriously considering to run Emacs atop GUILE?
>
> There's Ken Reaburn's attempt at http://www.mit.edu/~raeburn/guilemacs/ ,
> and there's also the Elisp support that's under `lang'. I don't think
> the former is really maintained. The latter isn't actively maintained
> either but I think it's in a pretty good shape. Neil?
What is the intended use case of running Elisp in GUILE ? Is anyone using it
for anything?
>> -;;;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> +;;;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> Can we do this in one fell swoop, adding 2008 to all files?
>
> I wouldn't do that. I think updating the copyright year *when* a change
> is made is better: it allows people to see at a glance whether a file
> has been changed at all recently
I think that
git log FILE
is the reliable and precise way to check that. The headers are so much
boilerplate that I pretty much ignore all of them.
> and avoids pointless commits.
We could add 2008 to all files in a single commit, and avoid poluting
diffs with header blah blah for an entire year.
> However, the GNU maintainer's guide (see (info "(maintain) Copyright
> Notices")) prefers the other way:
>
> To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have
> made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you're using a
> publicly accessible revision control server, so that every revision
> installed is also immediately and automatically published.) When you
> add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which files have
> seen significant changes in the new year and which have not. It is
> recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the
> package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
- Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()', Neil Jerram, 2008/09/01
- Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()', Ludovic Courtès, 2008/09/01
- Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()',
Han-Wen Nienhuys <=
- Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()', Neil Jerram, 2008/09/06
- Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()', Ken Raeburn, 2008/09/07
- Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()', Neil Jerram, 2008/09/08
- Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()', Ludovic Courtès, 2008/09/09
- Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()', Neil Jerram, 2008/09/10
Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()', Neil Jerram, 2008/09/01