From: Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Be prepared for "code clean-up" in CVS head
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:06:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030304165808.4EB9.LEKTU@terra.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5x3cm3p0vw.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
On 04 Mar 2003 17:11:47 +0100, storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) wrote:
> I think it is about
> time that some of the (extensive) code-duplication between the X, W32,
> and MAC ports is cleaned up.
Cool.
> So it is hard for me to see how
> they can co-exist without a really MAJOR cleanup.
>
> If we decide that we DO NOT want to support such cross-GUI hybrids, a
> lot more of the duplicate code could be cleaned up.
[...]
> WDYT?
IMHO, the "cross-GUI hybrid" would be difficult to implement right,
difficult to maintain and only marginally useful. I fear if we tried to
make it work we'd be hunting redisplay bugs for years to come. If
renouncing to it *helps* simplicity and cleanliness, more power to us.
/L/e/k/t/u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-04 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-04 16:11 Be prepared for "code clean-up" in CVS head Kim F. Storm
2003-03-04 16:06 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2003-03-04 17:23 ` Jan D.
2003-03-05 20:47 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-05 21:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-07 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-06 4:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-03-17 5:49 ` chad Brown
2003-03-10 18:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-05 20:47 ` Richard Stallman
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