Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:37:36 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:37:48 +0100
> 
> Well, I haven't discussed the issue with any of them yet; I based my
> statement on the HACKING file that comes with CVS. It says
>   it is only worth including portability cruft for systems on which
>   people are actually testing and using new CVS releases.  Without
>   testing, CVS will fail to be portable for any number of unanticipated
>   reasons.

Oh, such blurbs don't have to mean anything real.  Until you talk to
the maintainer, you never know; most of them are sympathetic, in my
experience.

> As to the :local:, that seems to work fine; only isabsolute() needed to
> be adjusted, as it didn't strip the leading ':local:', always returning
> false.

That's good news.