Re: Proposed gnulib renames

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:59:18 +0100
> 
> Requiring doslfn solely for those *building* emacs on DOS would
> allow the names of all C source and other build-only files to be "long".
> To gain that benefit, users would *not* have to install doslfn.
> 
> However, to extend that benefit to files loaded by emacs
> at run time, they would.

There's no reason to believe that file-name conflicts will be limited
to C files only.  C files in Emacs are added very infrequently, while
Lisp files much more frequently.