From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs on OS X development Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:01:51 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5017125F.7090503@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87r4s68rr4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83A41E83-79C8-4490-966B-CD224041E840@gmail.com> <6BC9F752-C724-4C3D-B2B9-088597A57C3E@gmail.com> <878ve943r8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87obn3zyw2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87394aqjx3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d33ektbo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <837gtmgcb3.fsf@gnu.org> <878ve1lurc.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343689324 21271 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2012 23:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?w5NzY2FyIEZ1ZW50ZXM=?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 01:02:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SvyyJ-0006q9-Mw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:01:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SvyyJ-0007j3-0l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SvyyG-0007iy-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:01:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SvyyF-00041M-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:40686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SvyyF-00041E-7q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39D3A60006; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:01:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Dy5lQpu6bUso; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.4] (pool-108-23-119-2.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.119.2]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 63891A60003; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:01:49 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <878ve1lurc.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151984 Archived-At: On 07/29/2012 09:48 PM, =C3=93scar Fuentes wrote: > using branches for ports would help to determine > where the bug was introduced I don't see why. In either case, one must look at the history. With branches, the history is less complicated to some extent (because one sometimes needs to look only at one branch's history) but more complicated in other respects (because one must sometimes look at another branch's history, if a merge introduces a problem); overall, using branches doesn't seem like it'd help much here. Certainly Emacs could be organized better, by isolating platform-specific code and by removing duplication among the ports we have, but branches quite possibly would make that (big) job even harder than it is now.