From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next release Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 17:35:18 -0400 Message-ID: <874p9dn46h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <18457.37369.262079.668907@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <5jr6clncn8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87od7p22dw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200805021331.m42DVYVw016584@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200805021610.m42GAhkE001271@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200805040056.m440u3eS022727@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 1209937222 18497 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2008 21:40:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 21:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , Nick Roberts , Dan Nicolaescu , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 04 23:40:58 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 1Jslx1-0005uc-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 23:40:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JslwJ-00030B-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 17:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JslwC-0002zV-L5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 17:40:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JslwA-0002ye-6f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 17:40:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40664 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JslwA-0002yb-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 17:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jslw6-0002eo-AQ; Sun, 04 May 2008 17:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8A9FF4E2FA; Sun, 4 May 2008 17:35:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu's message of "Sun, 04 May 2008 14:07:50 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:96455 Archived-At: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu writes: >> Yes, the merge had its share of problems, but the fact that Lorentey >> wasn't around made it worse. But I don't know what unrelated change >> you may be thinking about. > > Of course I can give concrete examples, which are Mac-specific. But > the point is: I found some, then how can I assure there's no other? > Rather, I would doubt the quality and reliability of the whole code > from such kinds of changes. Would you prefer that other Emacs developers avoid touching the Carbon-specifics part of the Emacs tree, even if compilation breaks, so that you are the only one responsible for changes to that part of the code? That might be an acceptable arrangement, if that is what you want.