From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reordering etc/NEWS Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:42:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2wmz0iriyj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fy65k6eh.fsf@red-bean.com> <853b25lk43.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sla5iqhs.fsf@red-bean.com> <85sla5k4py.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4642C8C9.5050804@gnu.org> <86tzul15ky.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4642E388.9010503@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178790142 15226 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2007 09:42:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:42:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 10 11:42:20 2007 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 1Hm5A8-0005y8-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 11:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm5HQ-0003Pi-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 05:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm5HN-0003PO-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 05:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm5HN-0003PC-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 05:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm5HN-0003P9-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 05:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hm5A4-0004Cb-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 05:42:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm59z-000189-PD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 11:42:07 +0200 Original-Received: from ua-83-227-131-3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([83.227.131.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 11:42:07 +0200 Original-Received: from joakim by ua-83-227-131-3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 11:42:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ua-83-227-131-3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3VuDug90JQO2oigj3wince6v/hY= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:70742 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > joakim@verona.se wrote: >> I use those branches and would be willing to test a merged version on >> gnu+linux and w32. I could possibly dig out more machines with >> different os:es as well if it would be any help. >> > If the multitty branch works on w32 already, then that gives me a lot > more confidence. I dont know. I have only tested mtty on gnu+linux. mtty doesnt have any value on w32 as far as I can imagine, so I usually just use Lennart Borgmans w32 emacs package. I can try to compile on w32. > My main concern was that it had never been tried to my knowledge, and > due to the nature of the changes, there probably is work to do on w32 > just to get Emacs to compile if all the work so far has focused on > tty and X usage. The problem is that this work has gone on outside the > normal emacs development community, so information of this sort is > hard to come by. Another concern would be whether we have papers for > everyone who has contributed to this branch. -- Joakim Verona