From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest begins end-June Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:46:49 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87y61ojhp4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4DE60326.8040505@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306933137 16701 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2011 12:58:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 01 14:58:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRl0b-0007ff-8L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:58:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57383 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRl0Z-00011B-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRkp4-0006Wa-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:46:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRkp2-0006jG-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:45836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRkp2-0006j2-Jq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:46:52 -0400 Original-Received: from 121-249-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.249.121]:5923 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRkp1-0007c6-Il; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 78678660DD; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:46:49 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: <4DE60326.8040505@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:15:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:140023 Archived-At: > I intend to gradually deploy my window code changes in the next days. > I'll start with the window tree functions, continue with moving the > resize routines to Elisp, and finally apply the `display-buffer' > changes. That was unexpected, but I think it's a good idea. > The final step will break a number of functions using buffer > display routines, notably in org, gud, calculator and calendar code, > which I cannot fix alone because I often don't understand the authors' > intentions. It very likely will also break external packages which I > don't know like Drew's Icicles. So I'll need some help there. Can you explain the kind of breakage and the reason why the change has to introduce these incompatibilities? Stefan