From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Replace XChar2b with unsigned in all font backends Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 13:38:40 +0100 Message-ID: <70BFB672-6B47-49F7-8C43-41C99695B2CE@gnu.org> References: <87v9y5uh63.fsf@gmail.com> <9A8FC3EE-ED24-49CC-8B13-294FF7F4D4BD@gnu.org> <867eak4u35.fsf@gmail.com> <85C56B1B-2554-45AE-AC66-5DE3CEC6AC94@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="102155"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 21 14:40:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hT43x-000QSB-5p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2019 14:40:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hT43v-00030Q-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2019 08:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hT42X-0002DI-FQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2019 08:38:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hT42X-0007R2-Cf; Tue, 21 May 2019 08:38:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [109.253.188.132] (port=38568 helo=[10.131.35.123]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hT42W-000659-80; Tue, 21 May 2019 08:38:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236857 Archived-At: On May 21, 2019 12:50:59 PM GMT+01:00, Andy Moreton wrote: > On Tue 21 May 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >=20 > > We are miscommunicating, I think=2E I didn't mean the problem > shouldn't be > > resolved ASAP, I meant it should be resolved by fixing the fallout > from that > > commit rather then by reverting it=2E >=20 > Indeed - the end goal is useful, but it seems we have different views > on > how to get there=2E This patch has problems on Windows (described in > this > thread), and on Linux (bug 35814)=2E >=20 > Trying to fix it up in place will leave master broken for some time, > so > I think an initial revert followed by reworking the patch in smaller > steps may be an easier way forward=2E >=20 > AndyM Indeed, I think that reverting is a destructive and generally less effici= ent way of fixing the problem when the changeset in question is mostly corr= ect=2E