From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:26:21 +0300 Message-ID: References: <6sps3z32ap.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tztbcue9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lkemmrg4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <18033.64249.816850.550250@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85ejkcq32v.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85k5u4nlrh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85abv0nit7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <851wgcngf7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85bqffn6jn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182018397 5938 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 18:26:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:26:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 20:26:35 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 1Hzcyn-0002py-7G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:26:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzcym-00082e-Ob for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:26:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzcyj-00082Y-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzcyh-00082M-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:26:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzcyg-00082J-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hzcyf-0002on-M2; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-136-231.inter.net.il [84.228.136.231]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id ICG59848 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:26:22 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <85bqffn6jn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:38:36 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:73080 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:38:36 +0200 > > the problem I > see with that idea is that after the unicode-2/trunk merge, there will > be lots of areas where people and their favorite private packages will > get exposure to the unicode-2 internals the first time, and there will > be lots of problems to shake out. If the merge consisted of just such > differences as can be contributed to the changed representation of the > multibyte strings and buffers, shaking out the problems encountered in > the process will be much easier if the branch has been kept reasonably > clean of unrelated changes and developments. > > Basically your approach sounds to me like "let us make unicode-2 our > new trunk and work around Richard in that manner". But one can't hope > to have something like that work consistently, and so some additions > will happen to unicode-2, and some to the trunk, and there will be a > lot of merge mess in two directions for which I see little motivation > and which actually is quite painful in CVS. Basically, you say this will somewhat less convenient. Yes, it will, but not by a large margin. I don't think we cannot afford the small measure of inconvenience.