From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.multi-tty,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging multitty Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 22:27:03 +0200 Message-ID: <85k5vdbxew.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <2wmz0iriyj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fy65k6eh.fsf@red-bean.com> <853b25lk43.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86bqgr3g1h.fsf_-_@lola.quinscape.zz> <4644355E.7070004@gnu.org> <867irf3cjo.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <464444AF.9070905@gnu.org> <4644DAA4.6090303@lorentey.hu> <200705121932.l4CJWDLx003326@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85odkpbzgw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200705122019.l4CKJwqs003822@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179001632 31348 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2007 20:27:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 20:27:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: multi-tty@lists.fnord.hu, Karoly Lorentey , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: multi-tty-bounces@lists.fnord.hu Sat May 12 22:27:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gem-multi-tty@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ninsei.hu ([212.92.23.158]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HmyBE-0004GQ-3L for gem-multi-tty@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 22:27:04 +0200 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (nixon [127.0.0.1]) by chatsubo.ninsei.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537DF78FF; Sat, 12 May 2007 22:27:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by chatsubo.ninsei.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABDEC78FF for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 22:27:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.29]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE4917B799; Sat, 12 May 2007 22:27:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCBED2794C0; Sat, 12 May 2007 22:27:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-053-057.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.53.57]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36DE30A91C; Sat, 12 May 2007 22:27:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3B1AE1C27956; Sat, 12 May 2007 22:27:03 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <200705122019.l4CKJwqs003822@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sat\, 12 May 2007 13\:19\:58 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: multi-tty@lists.fnord.hu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions of multiple tty support in Emacs List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: multi-tty-bounces@lists.fnord.hu Errors-To: multi-tty-bounces@lists.fnord.hu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.multi-tty:694 gmane.emacs.devel:70922 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > > > > For multi-tty there have not been any reports of crashes in a long > > > time (more than a 1 1/2 years if I recall correctly). > > > > It does not work at all on several platforms as far as I understand > > and thus would completely block the trunk for unrelated development. > > That has been know for several years, and it has not changed. And it > probably won't change until the branch is merged. There is no branch to merge yet. We first need to get it into a branch. Then people will have a chance to work on it. At the moment, it is only kept in a completely different repository. > Karoly says that it's mostly fixing compilation errors. I would > still guesstimate that the total disruption would be less. I don't think it would be a good idea to merge it into trunk before other people actually had a chance of assessing the problems and working with them. Up to now, all we have about the other platforms are guesses. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum