Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:57:52 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> >> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:08:20 +0100
> >> 
> >> Emacs is developed with a distributed version control system so working
> >> on private changes is perfectly possible without affecting the common
> >> public repository.
> >> 
> >> Where a change requires involving multiple platform maintainers, it is
> >> easily possible to first propose/provide the change in a branch where
> >> the respective platform developers able to test or cater for a change
> >> can prepare such changes without affecting the usability of the master
> >> branch for other developers.
> >
> > That's certainly a possibility.  But it, too, assumes some minimal
> > level of cooperation between the platform maintainers.  At the very
> > least, the idea and perhaps also the details of the change should be
> > published.  It makes no sense to ask others to guess how to find which
> > places on their platforms need change from large diffs.
> 
> I disagree here since those others will know the way around their
> platform code better than someone catering for a different platform.

Once the information about what should be changed is given, yes.  And
that is all that was requested.

> I would not myself go pointing out which stuff should be changed in the
> Windows code in order to parallel some GNU/Linux specific code changes
> I submit.

No one requested that.

> But that does not mean that a contributor should refrain from describing
> what he had to do on _his_ platform (with a high-level description
> rather than one tied into the platform-specific code) to accommodate the
> changes, and what functionality will likely be affected similarly on
> other platforms.

Exactly, this is the only request.