From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-23 release branch Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:53:55 +0200 Message-ID: <833a073kss.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zl2g24xy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83d3zc2iqr.fsf@gnu.org> <87eijsoz6u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268258047 28840 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2010 21:54:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 10 22:54:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpTqr-0003ln-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:54:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34851 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpTqr-0003KV-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:54:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NpTqm-0003JB-Ti for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:53:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58137 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpTqm-0003Im-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:53:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpTql-0005N5-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:53:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:62934) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpTqk-0005Mo-6B; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:53:54 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZ300L005ZFA000@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:53:52 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.34.234]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZ300KGT65RI240@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:53:52 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121794 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:23:46 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Wouldn't it make more sense to push your local bidi branch as a branch > > first? > > One of us is missing something: > > sftp://bzr.sv.gnu.org/srv/bzr/emacs/emacs-bidi has been around for > a while now. As David points out, that branch is effectively dead. It is based on an old and unstable development version of Emacs 22.1 (yes, 22.1!), has a couple of grave bugs in the bidirectional code itself, and so is not useful. By contrast, the local branch where I develop bidi Emacs is based on Emacs 23.1 and is merged with mainline once a week.