bug#19865: tar-untar-buffer: should honor default-directory

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> From: Ivan Shmakov  Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:12:47 +0000
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

[…]

 >> I will surely respect any NAKs from those in charge of the given
 >> package, or Emacs as a whole (as per the Savannah project page.)

 > The file says emacs-devel is in charge, so I'm not sure who you mean
 > here.

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 >>> I cannot force anyone here to do anything, I don’t have that power.

 >> We’re all volunteers here, yes.  But you can – and, I’d argue,
 >> should – /prevent/ the use of the Emacs community resources for the
 >> purposes contrary to the advancement of the project itself.

 > I don't know what that means in practice.

        In practice, that means that those who keep interfering with the
        community efforts risk losing their commit access.  (Or “posting
        access” to the mailing list, just like it happened to one of the
        bug-hurd@ participants something like a decade back.  Etc.)

 > I have my opinions and views, but who is to say whether they are or
 > aren't contrary to the advancement?

        It’s up to those who’re in charge to decide.  I can understand
        the lack of interest in holding such a responsibility, but the
        problem is: I don’t want it, either.

        Still, I have no means to /force/ you to review my submissions.
        But once you did – I won’t use community resources against your
        /objections./  (As opposed to, say, lack of appreciation – I can
        accept that perfectly well.)

        (In short: the golden rule of volunteer-driven projects is that
        the leaders tell us not what we /do,/ but what we /do not./)

[…]

 >> And I’d still like to hear why you think that tar-untar-buffer
 >> /must/ use the value of default-directory local to a buffer /other/
 >> than the one the user called this command from.

 > Because it's simpler, and makes the code easier to follow.

        My former patch expands the code by a single line; my latter one
        adds two more for a comment (while removing one level of nesting
        from a fair chunk of the code at the same time.)  How is that
        making it any harder to follow?

        Besides, as I’ve already noted, it does make tar-untar-buffer
        more consistent with both the rest of tar-mode.el, /and/ the
        rest of Emacs.  I thus believe that a single extra LoC is fully
        justified here.

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