> From: Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>, > emacs-de...@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:26:52 -0500 > > > The Emacs trunk already has seventeen other files > > with 2 dots in their file names, with names like > > lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el > > I don't know how MSDOS handles names that start with dot, so either this > is a special case that's OK, or it's indeed a problem which we hadn't > noticed yet.
The program used to unpack the .tar.gz archives automatically renames ant .FOO files to _FOO while unpacking, so that's not a problem. (This program, called djtar.exe, is part of the DJGPP package which is used to build Emacs on MSDOS.) > > and admin/charsets/mapfiles/symbol.txt.gz. > > This one, OTOH is OK because the `admin' subdir is not included in the > tarball, so its name is irrelevant. Right. > > Again, the Emacs trunk already has several instances of truncation > > after 8+3 limits, such as lisp/org/org-compat.el versus > > lisp/org/org-complete.el, > > Good point. I guess Eli hadn't noticed it yet. I did notice that. These files appeared very recently, and I didn't yet have time to talk to Org mode maintainers about renaming them. In the past a couple of other Org files were renamed for this reason, at my request. > > and test/cedet/semantic-ia-utest.el > > versus test/cedet/semantic-tests.el, and I don't see why > > files imported from gnulib would be different. > > Here, again, the `test' subdir is not included in the tarball, so it's > not an issue. Right.
