Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:52:13 +0100, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I find it highly embarrassing that I have to tell people that want >> to test drive Emacs without becoming a debugger-savvy developer > > Why do you find it "embarrassing"? Because there is no other usable Emacs to be had? > Is it surprising to these people that a develop tree is optimized > for ... development? It isn't. This "optimization" has wasted a week for me already, by triggering non-bugs that were slated to be fixed anyway. Just because I point out that the external damage we are doing with this kind of thing is acutely embarrassing and unnecessary does not mean that it not also impedes development internally. > It is certainly possible for Richard to decide that the default > state of the CVS trunk should be optimized for random users who want > to check out Emacs, and not for people interested in helping find > bugs. You conveniently ignore that I already explained several times that this setting in the current situation is actively _preventing_ fixing the kind of "bugs" that get triggered by it. Just that I also point out that shooting others in the foot is not going to make us popular does not mean that I consider shooting ourselves in the foot a great pastime. > But I think it should an explicit decision to that effect. I was of the opinion I was arguing just for that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
