Re: build broken: no defun org-float-time. Who's guilty, and what does he propose?

[joakim]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>> This is a serious process bug we have, we've had for years, and we MUST
>> fix.  If it's not fixed soon, I'm just going to give up on Emacs
>> maintenance and bid the project goodbye.  The pain level is too high.
>
> I agree that this sort of thing can be annoying, but the procedure for
> dealing with such things is well known and not particular onerous:
> "make bootstrap" (could be a bit onerous if you've got a very slow
> machine though)
>
> Moreover, it happens very rarely -- I'd guess only a few times a year,
> and far less often than the more usual sort of problem where somebody
> just committed a bogus change that simply doesn't compile (though that
> kind of problem is fairly rare too).
>
> I don't know how you get "the pain level is too high" out of that...

It does kind of interrupt ones workflow. I scratched my head a lot last
time, because I thought the error was on my end and didnt think of
bootstraping. 

>
> -Miles
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Joakim Verona