> From: Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, egg...@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, > Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net>, emacs-de...@gnu.org, > roucaries.bast...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:04:44 -0500 > > This said, I'd be happy if we could solve the 8+3 issue differently.
I will go with any solution that does not unduly increases the burden and does not involve tedious manual work down the line. For now, the only alternatives I heard more or less told me to go screw myself. > Eli, what do you think of Paul's suggestion to use > > "djtar -n emacs-25.chg emacs-25.tgz" I already replied: this kind of scheme is used by GDB, and it works very badly. I don't want to go that way in Emacs.