From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts)
Cc: Dmitry Dzhus <dima@sphinx.net.ru>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs and the Google Summer of Code
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:20:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr5ziyyu3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18929.26723.199888.664316@totara.tehura.co.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:21:07 +1200")
>> > I know that RMS does not like this idea, as he thinks that all focus
>> > will shift to the new branch, but I'm not sure if that's true and
>> > there are drawbacks in not having one. Debian seem to manage with
>> > both a testing and unstable distribution.
>> This is a completely different issue. We're talking about a branch for
>> a particular feature. We're not talking about opening "a new trunk".
> I probably wasn't very clear but that's exactly what I was talking about.
> Yidong's post also seems to suggest that this might be possible. Creating
> a sparate branch for one Emacs mode is probably not worthwhile as experience
> from GDB tells me that very few people would check that branch out.
As long as we're in pretest, I don't really want to encourage people to
try development code. But AFAIK, there's still a fair bit of
development to be done on that GDB/MI thing before it needs testing, so
I think it's not an issue.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-23 7:15 Emacs and the Google Summer of Code Nick Roberts
2009-04-23 8:42 ` Miles Bader
2009-04-23 12:33 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-23 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-24 7:21 ` Nick Roberts
2009-04-24 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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