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: vc-svn.el donation - attn Stephan Monnier Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:47:13 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200307040047.h640lDU8015375@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <87u1a3o6d3.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057279696 17076 80.91.224.249 (4 Jul 2003 00:48:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 04 02:48:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19YEkI-0004RG-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jul 2003 02:48:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19YEsR-0000zi-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jul 2003 02:56:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19YEk1-0005GI-VN for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19YEjb-0004u3-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19YEjM-0004XJ-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19YEjK-0004QY-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h640lDHl015377; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 20:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h640lDU8015375; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 20:47:13 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Karl Fogel Original-cc: wolfjb@bigfoot.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15359 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15359 > that edition to live in the Emacs source tree. I'm not the right > person to maintain it, as I don't use it, but Stefan might be. If he > is actively maintaining the one currently in Emacs, and is sure that > the one in the Subversion tree has nothing that's not in his version, > then perhaps our task is as simple as: > > a) See if there's anything useful in your version that's missing > from Stefan's, and port those changes over if so, and I'll do that as soon as I catch up with the rest of my mail. > b) Remove the one in the Subversion tree, and point people at some > public URL for the one in the Emacs tree. The one in the Emacs tree is supposed to provide a superset of the functionality of the one in the Subversion tree, except for the fact that it does not work with Emacs-21.X. Whether it does provide a superset or not is actually an open question because the code is completely different (the sync'ing is "featurewise" rather than "codewise"). Stefan