From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New sync'd branch Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:25:11 +1200 Message-ID: <19091.4935.369973.835792@totara.tehura.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251162735 411 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 01:12:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 03:12:08 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 1MfkZx-0001Jb-Pf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:12:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50114 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfkZx-0001pd-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfkZq-0001lW-Nk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:11:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfkZm-0001g2-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:11:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50138 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfkZm-0001fs-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:11:54 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]:55235) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfkZk-0000Qx-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from totara (unknown [123.255.30.17]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9A03D9E1A; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:25:12 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by totara (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67229C164; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:25:11 +1200 (NZST) X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:114569 Archived-At: > We'd like to have a new release in the first half of next year with some > new features. Given the short time, the new features need to be > non-intrusive, like new packages. I'm not sure how stable gdb mode will be by that time. It may require some changes to gdb itself. I had anticipated at least a two year development period (21.1 -> 22.1 six years, 22.1 -> 23.1 two years). > So I believe we should create a new branch EMACS_23 which will play the > role currently played by the trunk, so the trunk can now be open to more > experimental development (bidi, cpp->autoconf conversion, lexbind, ...), > targetted for Emacs-24. This seems contrary to earlier belief that branching well before a release results in all energy being diverted away from the release. I would also like to see a release from EMACS_23_1_RC where I have included some improvements to gdb-ui.el. I realise that this might not happen. In any case, I have removed this file from trunk, so I don't want to see these changes merged back to trunk (if that were possible). -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob