Re: [Bug-apl] Support for help command in emacs-mode

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi,

On 01/07/2018 05:52 PM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
> To me, it's a lot better if the primary code stays in the main GNU APL 
> repository.
Agreed. The current problem is that your git repository is a little 
behind the
main GNU APL repository. I made some code clean-ups already some time ago
which alse needed some small updates in your emacs subdirectory. So all that
is required is that you fetch the emacs subdiretcory back from the GNU 
APL repository.
Without that the files in the emacs subdirectory do not compile anymore.

Of course that could have been avoided if we had used only a sinfle 
repository.
But that has downsides as well. I do not normally apply patches to the 
GNU sources
without testing them. A few weeks ago I got a patch which broke the GNU 
APL build.
Had I not tested the patch, simply appying it would have created a major 
problem.

Unfortunately in the emacs case (but also for sql and postgres) I cannot 
test the code
related to it on my machine. So I depend on you testing all changes made 
to that code.
But even if your changes successfully compile on a out-of-date version 
of GNU APL then
your updated code breaks the build of the latest GNU APL. And that is 
the case regardless
of we submit changes by means of patch files, or by updating from a 
remote repository,
or by checking code into a common directory.

Best Regards,
/// Jürgen