From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: merging Emacs.app Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:04:19 -0800 Message-ID: <200803050504.m2554JRn010804@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <18375.18663.981150.252393@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200803031629.m23GT4tH023615@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204693528 26689 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 05:05:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 06:05:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWlpB-0003pV-91 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:05:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWloe-0004d4-4E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWloZ-0004Zx-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:05:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWloV-0004UW-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:05:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWloV-0004UT-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:05:11 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWloR-0003a2-9w; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:05:07 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1205298260.43952@arHBhYDItHzTeV1dDggqJA Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m2554JRn010804; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:04:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:38:23 -0500") Original-Lines: 30 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91353 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > >> But the focus will be on 23.1. As mentioned I'd like to enter feature > >> freeze for 23.1 by the beginning of the summer. Until then I mostly > >> hope to include Emacs.app. > > > Is there a definite schedule for merging Emacs.app? > > No. I just got in touch with Robert Adrian to try and figure out how > to proceed. > > > What will happen with the Carbon port in CVS HEAD? It probably doesn't > > even compile at the moment. > > What will happen to this port will in large part depend on whether or > not someone wants to maintain it. The Emacs.app port is desirable not > only because it provides support for Mac OS X but also because it > provides support for GNUstep. > > W.r.t whether we want the old Carbon port, the Carbon+Appkit port > (which I've only heard about), and/or the Emacs.app port all > together... well that makes for 4 different ports (counting the X11 > version) for Mac OS X, which is a lot more than we need/want. > > I think it's important for Emacs-23 to support Mac OS X about as well as > we did with Emacs-22. So if Emacs.app is not yet ready and someone else > is willing to work on one of the Carbon ports, maybe we could keep it. Hopefully the Mac OS X guys can get together and decide to support just one of the non-X11 ports...