Re: On Savannah: What are "arch" and "bidi" and ....

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
 > At the risk of appearing stupid, would somebody please tell me the
 > purpose of the various named branches in the Emacs CVS repository.  I've
 > been seeing these names bandied about on the emacs-devel mailing list for
 > months, and haven't had the courage to ask before now.

You should ask on the emacs-devel mailing list then.

...

 > So, what are the "arch", "bidi", "lexical", "multi-tty", "RC", (Miles's)
 > "tiling", "Unicode" branches for?  Is there anywhere on savannah I could
 > have looked to find the answer myself?

arch is a new version control system, aka tla.  I don't understand the
relationship between CVS and arch, though.

bidi is the branch that supports bidirectional text, i.e. right-to-left
languages as well as left-to-right.

lexical is the branch that implements Emacs Lisp with lexical
(vs. dynamic) binding.

multi-tty is the branch that supports, uh, multiple ttys (for a single
emacs instance).

tiling is the branch that implements some fancy image features, like
background images.

unicode is obviously the branch that (fully) support Unicode -- it might
even use it as the internal encoding.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers