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: merging the xwidget_mvp branch Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 17:34:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447000540 16922 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2015 16:35:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 16:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 08 17:35:32 2015 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 1ZvSwD-0000eo-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 17:35:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47990 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvSwC-0005Qz-Ck for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 11:35:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46569) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvSvz-0005Qs-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 11:35:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvSvw-0001rC-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 11:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mx6.bahnhof.se ([213.80.101.16]:37472) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvSvw-0001r8-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 11:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (mf.bahnhof.se [213.80.101.20]) by mx6-reinject (Postfix) with ESMTP id B190C417BD; Sun, 8 Nov 2015 17:35:11 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at bahnhof.se (MF2) Original-Received: from mf2.bahnhof.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mf2.bahnhof.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fvGOflZpdEQv; Sun, 8 Nov 2015 17:35:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mta.verona.se (h-235-62.a149.priv.bahnhof.se [85.24.235.62]) by mf2.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CBDD94021B; Sun, 8 Nov 2015 17:35:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mta.verona.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B074EE22B; Sun, 8 Nov 2015 16:35:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at verona.se Original-Received: from mta.verona.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (exodia.verona.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tr2N0I9nVZS2; Sun, 8 Nov 2015 17:34:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from exodia.verona.se (www.verona.se [192.168.200.15]) by mta.verona.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D894EDA74; Sun, 8 Nov 2015 17:34:46 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:21:56 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 213.80.101.16 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:193623 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> Stefan Monnier writes: > >> We've already been through several rounds of reviewing, so I'm sure he'd be >> very disappointed if it doesn't get the code merged after all those efforts. > >> And IIRC the technical debt seemed quite OK: the interaction between >> xwidget's own code (the part that deals with the xwidget API) and Emacs's >> own code is very similar to the interaction between Emacs and the various >> image libraries. > > Since this review was done under your tenure, Stefan, I'll defer to your > judgment on this one. I generally have an aversion to large new features > without a driving use case, but you deserve at least one "midnight > appointment". :) There is a driving use case, but I think I will explain it on the new 'tangents' list. On emacs-devel I like to be terse, but it's not really my natural mode of writing. > > John -- Joakim Verona