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: Dynamic loading progress Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:48:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2ptq5t3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56259FDD.8040401@dancol.org> <87zizeme8k.fsf@tromey.com> <5625B166.3080104@dancol.org> <86zizdczhp.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <871tc315y3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83611eqk9w.fsf@gnu.org> <878u6ax7c7.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446904114 31829 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2015 13:48:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 13:48:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 14:48:26 2015 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 1Zv3qx-0003dP-DR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:48:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv3qw-0001Xk-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 08:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv3qs-0001Xd-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 08:48:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv3qp-0000GT-QA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 08:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:56456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv3qp-0000GP-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 08:48:15 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXG0070061N6Q00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:48:14 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXG007346CD09A0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:48:14 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878u6ax7c7.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:193533 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 08:33:12 -0500 > > EZ> I don't see any reasons to disagree. But adding such a feature, IME, > EZ> needs more than just one week before we shake it up enough. > > I agree, but please recall it's been brewing for a very long time, so > it's not something we just started. I know. But if you mean to imply that a week might be enough, then I don't think so. As long as the feature is on a separate branch, it doesn't get enough exposure to users, neither wrt possible build-time complications, nor wrt run-time problems. There are just too many corner cases which are only visible once the feature is on master.