From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: status of utf-8.el, etc [Re: Several serious problems] Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:56:29 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200209261356.g8QDuTO15360@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200208190748.QAA14278@etlken.m17n.org> <200208291325.WAA03596@etlken.m17n.org> <200208291732.g7THWRU11411@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200209250701.QAA10989@etlken.m17n.org> <200209251435.g8PEZKh10820@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200209252347.IAA12034@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033048710 10643 127.0.0.1 (26 Sep 2002 13:58:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, d.love@dl.ac.uk, rms@gnu.org, keichwa@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17uZ9x-0002lX-00 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:58:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17uZri-0004D9-00 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:43:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17uZA4-0006zB-00; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17uZ8Q-0006O3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:56:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17uZ8O-0006Mx-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17uZ8M-0006KD-00; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8QDuTO15360; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:56:29 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Kenichi Handa Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8177 > In article <200209251435.g8PEZKh10820@rum.cs.yale.edu>, "Stefan Monnier" writes: > >> (1-1) unify-8859-on-encoding-mode can't be turned off safely. > > I still haven't heard of any reason why it should ever be turned off anyway. > > I think we should simply get rid of this minor-mode. > > I tend to agree with getting rid of it. But, I have not yet > considered that possibility deeply. If we are going to > remove it, I think we should do that in 21.3. Introducing > something in 21.3 and remove it in 21.4 is not a good thing. But that would make 21.3 into much less of a "bug-fix only" release. I think we're wasting way too much effort on 21.3. We should get it out the door quickly so we can concentrate on getting 21.4 ready. Backporting features from 21.4 to 21.3 is not very constructive. Stefan