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: State of NS port Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:28:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <69E12347-B799-48E4-AE1A-115365CEA4C8@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357846141 6474 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2013 19:29:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org Development" To: Adrian Robert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 10 20:29:19 2013 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 1TtNoU-0004wC-Gp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:29:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtNoE-0003Mt-AW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:29:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtNoA-0003Mn-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:29:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtNo9-0000Mb-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:28:58 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:8759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtNo9-0000MW-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:28:57 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtkGAG6Zu0+4rw8T/2dsb2JhbABEgXuyFoEIghUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIHAW6CZBEA4hCmnGBWIMH X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="212247500" Original-Received: from 184-175-15-19.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.15.19]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 10 Jan 2013 14:28:56 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 63E7459230; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:28:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <69E12347-B799-48E4-AE1A-115365CEA4C8@gmail.com> (Adrian Robert's message of "Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:27:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:156196 Archived-At: > I don't know if the current steps backwards are due to the lack of > maintenance in keeping up with internal core changes, or due to inadvertent > and/or accepted losses in the course of making port enhancements. AFAICT, there have been very few enhancements, if any. The lack of manpower means that we can barely fix the bugs that are being reported, and some of those fixes may indeed introduce regressions. > All I can do is make this request humbly, and apologize for my own lack of > involvement, which while it has surely led to improvement of the codebase > overall, seems to have caused some penalty as well. We dearly miss your help, Stefan