From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: State of the overlay branch (again)? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:58:45 +0300 Message-ID: <831rw4oipm.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="90686"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sebastian Sturm Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 25 11:00:42 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 1iD3A9-000NU3-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:00:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47296 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iD3A7-0003Uh-FC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 05:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56895) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iD38q-0002XV-FR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:59:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57962) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iD38Y-0004NM-IR; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:59:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4878 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iD38V-0004DO-Ch; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:59:01 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Sebastian Sturm on Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:59:02 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:240284 Archived-At: > From: Sebastian Sturm > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:59:02 +0200 > > Somehow I had thought that the noverlay branch had long since been > merged with master but when I recently tried to find evidence for that > merge, I couldn't find any. > > So, is the new overlay functionality part of Emacs master (heavily > renamed perhaps) 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.