> From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:59:18 +0100 > > Requiring doslfn solely for those *building* emacs on DOS would > allow the names of all C source and other build-only files to be "long". > To gain that benefit, users would *not* have to install doslfn. > > However, to extend that benefit to files loaded by emacs > at run time, they would.
There's no reason to believe that file-name conflicts will be limited to C files only. C files in Emacs are added very infrequently, while Lisp files much more frequently.
