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: Emacs and the Google Summer of Code Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:20:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18928.5536.261692.998827@totara.tehura.co.nz> <18929.26723.199888.664316@totara.tehura.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240579276 22811 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2009 13:21:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Dzhus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 15:22:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LxLMP-0000rR-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:22:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LxLKx-0005Mu-IJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxLK7-0004zo-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxLK3-0004vV-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54548 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LxLK2-0004vM-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:59234 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LxLK2-0007rH-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:20:06 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApQFACNZ8UlMCrUB/2dsb2JhbACBUNAUg3QFhS4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,241,1238990400"; d="scan'208";a="37550464" Original-Received: from 76-10-181-1.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.181.1]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 24 Apr 2009 09:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 623677EFE; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:20:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <18929.26723.199888.664316@totara.tehura.co.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:21:07 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110457 Archived-At: >> > 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