Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:55:44 -0400
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> The real problem here isn't technical, it's cultural.  This crew is way
> too used to rusty, broken, archaic tools like CVS and the high hassle
> costs that go with them.  Until that changes, fixing the mess will
> be theoretically conceivable but politically impossible.

Sorry, but that's ridiculous.  Next you will tell us that invoking
"configure" and "make" from the shell prompt is ``rusty and broken'',
and is the reason for the fact that you expect the build to fail,
because it's all too easy to try to run "make" before "configure" or
misspell "make" as "Make".

Using CVS and not knowing about -d is like using GCC without knowing
what the -c switch does.