From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bidi support
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:25:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbvx3nc1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MfOcL-0002oX-L3@etlken>
Kenichi Handa writes:
> In article <87bpm84dao.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > Stefan Monnier writes:
> > Agreed. The more I think about it, the more I think we need to open
> > a new branch for "what will become emacs-24".
>
> > That's what I thought, too, about XEmacs 21.5. I was wrong. We ended
> > up having to uproot the trunk and move it to a branch, and graft the
> > 21.5 branch back as the trunk. Long-term development belongs either
> > on the trunk, or in feature branches. Not on a long-term development
> > branch which collects several features.
> Having an separate branch has at least one merit. As far as
> it is branched from a fairly stable version,
What you describe is what I mean by "feature branch". Features
branches are a tried and true way to work; I do not mean to say "don't
use feature branches".
> For the case of bidi, if there's a plan of another big
> change in the display engine, the above merit is big.
bidi already has a branch or a repository or something. It only needs
to be canonized as "accepted in principle" for v24, and given an
official URL. My understanding of what Stefan proposed is something
different: that as the maintainers decide that some features are
important to add, they be merged to the "for v24" branch: bidi with
lexbind with ....
> By the way, the case of emacs-unicode is very special. It
> simply can't be in the trunk while developing because the
> new unicode feature can't be toggled.
By "can't", I guess you mean you didn't design it to be toggled? Ben
Wing worked out how to have toggle-able buffer formats in 2002 (then
disappeared from XEmacs, unfortunately, but the infrastructure is
present). I'm not saying it's a good idea, but it's possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-24 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 18:35 using libmagic in Emacs? joakim
2009-08-18 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-18 20:01 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-18 20:35 ` joakim
2009-08-18 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-19 2:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-19 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-19 13:47 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-19 15:57 ` joakim
2009-08-19 19:46 ` next bugfix release? [was: Re: using libmagic in Emacs?] Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-19 21:06 ` next bugfix release? Chong Yidong
2009-08-19 21:53 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-19 22:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-08-19 23:16 ` Nick Roberts
2009-08-20 9:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-20 11:19 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-08-20 15:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-08-20 15:47 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-19 19:05 ` installing features on trunk (was: using libmagic in Emacs?) Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 18:59 ` Bidi support Stefan Monnier
2009-08-21 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-22 3:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-22 8:18 ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-22 5:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-22 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-24 1:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-08-24 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-24 7:17 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-08-24 3:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2009-08-19 0:57 ` using libmagic in Emacs? Juri Linkov
2009-08-20 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-22 23:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-24 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-24 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-24 7:33 ` joakim
2009-08-25 2:08 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-25 2:19 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-25 5:09 ` joakim
2009-08-25 13:27 ` James Cloos
2009-08-25 21:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-08-25 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-25 20:37 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-29 23:19 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-30 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-30 20:54 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 2:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-31 16:17 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-01 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-01 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-03 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-04 7:52 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 22:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 3:33 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 15:03 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-31 16:19 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 23:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 3:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-01 5:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-25 20:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-19 22:49 ` joakim
2009-08-19 23:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-20 1:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-20 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-20 4:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-20 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 0:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-20 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-21 19:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-22 5:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-23 1:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-20 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-20 19:19 ` joakim
2009-08-20 22:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-21 9:55 ` joakim
2009-08-21 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 17:38 ` joakim
2009-08-21 17:46 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-08-21 18:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-21 19:13 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-21 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 21:48 ` joakim
2009-08-21 22:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-22 20:18 ` joakim
2009-08-22 23:13 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-23 23:38 ` joakim
2009-08-24 3:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-24 12:30 ` joakim
2009-08-23 3:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-21 13:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-20 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-20 20:27 ` Reiner Steib
2009-08-21 14:08 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-21 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28 0:27 ` Language identification (was: using libmagic in Emacs) Juri Linkov
2009-08-28 4:58 ` Language identification Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28 9:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-28 14:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 4:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-29 14:21 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-29 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-29 4:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-29 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 16:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-28 19:16 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-29 1:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-30 16:01 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-29 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-29 22:48 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 8:42 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-31 8:59 ` Jan D.
2009-08-31 3:33 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-28 6:45 ` Alex Ott
2009-08-28 6:46 ` Alex Ott
2009-08-28 19:08 ` Juri Linkov
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