Re: Fwd: CEDET sync

["Eric M. Ludlam" <eric@siege-engine.com>]

On 03/01/2010 04:27 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Questions are:
>>> 1) is anybody already doing such a sync?
>>> 2) if not, from which date should I start synchronizing changes?
>>>
>>> I'm not fully aware of which extra changes are required for the synchronization
>>> (except for the long name ->  subdirectory fix), so directions will be much
>>> appreciated.
>
>> I planned to do a sync after the Emacs 23.2 release branch is made, but
>> you are welcome to do it if you like.
>
> I really don't like that smell.  We need to make sure the two code-bases
> evolve in-sync, which won't work as long as we keep "gratuitous"
> differences between the two (file names and things like that).
>
> I thought Eric was to incorporate most/all of the changes we made into
> his version.  If this doesn't take place real soon, it'll become much
> too painful to maintain.

Indeed, that is my plan.  I fear the big merge will make it harder to 
support older Emacsen and XEmacs, so I wanted to get some sort of stable 
release out that can finalize that style of CEDET.  It's just been slow. 
  Since I don't have a feature freeze or anything, CEDET keeps getting a 
little better over time, almost without me, while I've been getting test 
suites up and running against various Emacs flavors.

My hope is that this last release I did shows few build/compatibility 
problems and I can easily just post the last release on CVS, then move 
on.  Last year issues and patches kept coming for a couple months.  It's 
been much slower this time around.

Eric