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: Mergeability of xwidget patch? Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:18:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308550705 15748 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2011 06:18:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Hackney , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 20 08:18:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYXoR-0005QG-Lv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:18:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44074 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYXoQ-000309-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYXoD-000301-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYXoC-0005b8-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from m1.alltele.net ([85.30.0.4]:56699 helo=smtp.alltele.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYXoC-0005b3-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from chopper ([87.96.209.133]) by smtp.alltele.net (IceWarp 10.3.1 RC1) with ESMTP (SSL) id DMM49701; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:18:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:18:08 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-CTCH: RefID="str=0001.0A0B0202.4DFEE61A.01B0,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0"; Spam="Unknown"; VOD="Unknown" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows XP/2000 (RFC1323+, w+, tstamp-) X-Received-From: 85.30.0.4 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:140705 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I'm the developer of Ezbl [1], a package which embeds the Uzbl web >> browser within Emacs. Ezbl depends on the xwidget patch by Joakim >> Verona, which is in the Emacs repo under the "xwidget" branch. I'd like >> to have Ezbl be available to people without them having to install a >> separate branch of Emacs (especially since it hasn't kept up with the >> trunk). > > I think both xwidget and ezbl are indeed a very interesting projects. > I do not know enough about the xwidget branch to tell you how close/far > it is to merging. But unless it's "right about ready" (which doesn't > sounds likely) it seems too late for 24.1 which will enter feature > freeze real-soon-now. > Depending on details of the xwidget code (if it is sufficiently > modular), it might make it into 24.2, but otherwise it'd have to wait > for 25.1. > If the code isnot modular enough, maybe we could install some > refactoring right now, so that the remaining patch is sufficiently > modular for 24.2. xwidgets walk all over the display code. OTOH its pretty modular in the sense that if you dont insert xwidgets the new painting code isn't touched. So, 24.2 doesn't seem unreasonable, but I think the project needs more hands if its going to move forward. I can offer to keep the branch more alive but I probably need someone with a large stick to keep me going :) > > > Stefan -- Joakim Verona