From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-install.el in Emacs probably should be removed
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:32:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdrb9hvk.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ADBCB163-FCCF-424B-88BB-5EAD457378F8@uva.nl> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Sun\, 15 Feb 2009 23\:40\:24 +0100")
Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
> On Feb 15, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> The usage of org-install has the pre-requisite of having to compile
>> the org.el files. This is no use to people like myself, who want to
>> use the same .el files in XEmacs and Emacs due to incompatible .elc
>> problems. Its also no use to people who do no have a build system or
>> make binary installed e.g. windows users, locked down linux/unix
>> systems etc.
>>
>> How about adding a skeleton org-install.el that gets overwritten by
>> the make?
>
> org-install.el is part of the distribution tar and zip files.
> I cannot include it into the git repo because the git people tell
> me that it is a bad idea to keep a product file under git
> control (Bernt?).
The main reason this is a bad idea in git master branch is that the file
gets automatic changes on different systems and looks modified after
each time you run make. This file gets in the way of other (real)
changes since git thinks the working tree is dirty and prevents changing
branches, rebasing, or merging with a dirty tree. The contents of the
org-install.el file are uninteresting and really does not belong in the
tracked files for the project since it is a product of the build
procedure.
If you want a skeleton org-install.el in the tar/zip files then you
probably should generate that when producing the tar/zip files.
-Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-16 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-15 7:50 org-install.el in Emacs probably should be removed Leo
2009-02-15 20:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-15 22:18 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2009-02-15 22:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-16 3:32 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-02-24 15:38 ` Tim O'Callaghan
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