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Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 17:31:02 +0300

> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:58:40 -0500
> 
> > How often I wished to see on master the dirty sequence of how someone
> > came to the conclusion that the last version is the correct one.  How
> > often would this have prevent me from entering precisely the same false
> > starts and back-tracking, saving me many, many hours of silly work.
> 
> That's what design docs are for; either in .texi or code comments.

Design docs are about the future design, they are almost never updated
to reflect the actual design post-factum.  And it's impossible in
practice to tell the development story in comments.



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