From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:44:56 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207181644.g6IGiuv11955@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027010721 4958 127.0.0.1 (18 Jul 2002 16:45:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17VEP1-0001Hr-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:45:19 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17VEb0-00021P-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:57:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17VEP1-0004lk-00; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:45:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17VEOg-0004lG-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6IGiuv11955; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:44:56 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Dave Love Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5867 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5867 > There have been various pervasive changes recently which will cause > grief merging the unicode branch eventually. Could people doing this > for Mule-related files (including display) please be prepared to > modify the `emacs-unicode' branch too. I don't know if handa would > like to be consulted beforehand, but I assume he'd appreciate having > it done now, with less problems later on. (I guess the same would go > for other active branches, if there are any.) Maintaining several branches like that takes a lot of effort, especially if active development is done on both the trunk and emacs-unicode. I obviously agree that merging changes from the trunk to emacs-unicode should be done regularly, ideally by the person that did the change. But I think we should also think about trying to reduce the number of active branches. How about the following: - feature freeze on the trunk. - create a branch for Emacs_21_4 where we can commit bug-fixes during the subsequent debugging+pretest+maintenance period. - merge the emacs-unicode changes onto the trunk. IIUC 21.3 will be out soon, and I think that 21.4's feature freeze should follow very closely. How mature is emacs-unicode ? Stefan