From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Sturm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: State of the overlay branch (again)? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:07:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4a2ac440-fc35-4b07-e9cb-9782d0b4c1ad@arkona-technologies.de> References: <831rw4oipm.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="86519"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 25 14:07:49 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iD65E-000MMC-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:07:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49150 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iD65C-0004fc-Ob for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iD655-0004fR-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iD654-0005P7-Kp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out002.kontent.com ([81.88.40.216]:38770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iD654-0005Oj-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.16.222.49] (unknown [213.157.6.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: arkona-technologies_de_22@smtp-out002.kontent.com) by smtp-out002.kontent.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5E70140033AD for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:07:32 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <831rw4oipm.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 81.88.40.216 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240285 Archived-At: I see, thanks for the quick response! > No, it wasn't merged. > >> or if not, is the merge still planned? > > We still hope to merge it at some point. > >> If so, is there anything I could do to help speed up the merge >> process (as of yet I don't have any experience with the overlay >> mechanism or Emacs' C internals though) > > AFAIK, the work on the branch is not finished, and it is not yet ready > for being merged. So the problem is not the merging itself. > > At this point, I also doubt I'd agree to merge it before the emacs-27 > branch is cut, as we already have too many potentially destabilizing > changes on master, and adding one more will run the risk of making the > Emacs 27 pretest even longer than I fear it will be.