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Re: Proposed gnulib renames
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Proposed gnulib renames |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:15:03 +0200 |
> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 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.