From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs roadmap Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:49:04 -0700 Message-ID: <87obhswm3j.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355770156 19646 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2012 18:49:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs devel To: Tony Day Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 17 19:49:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tkfkj-0005Je-T0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:49:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkfkW-0008R7-Ig for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:49:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkfkT-0008Qu-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:49:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkfkS-0004xX-8o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkfkS-0004xM-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:49:08 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qBHIn6Xd003885 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:49:06 -0500 Original-Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qBHIn4FX002571 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:49:05 -0500 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Tony Day's message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:25:39 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.90 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.24 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155625 Archived-At: >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Day writes: Tony> Is there a long term roadmap for emacs research and development that Tony> someone could point to? Having done my homework I find nothing out Tony> there except rumour and myth. For instance: Tony> - Is multi-threading coming to emacs 25? I don't know about Emacs 25, but I did manage to merge trunk to the concurrency branch today. If you're interested you could try it out. I still haven't done any development work on it since the last time I asked a question here. All the big features work though. Tony> More generally, when can we get turtles all the way down and enjoy the Tony> return of the symbolic machine? It is difficult. Tom