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: bidi branch Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:03:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83tysk11t0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zl2g24xy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83d3zc2iqr.fsf@gnu.org> <87eijsoz6u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <833a073kss.fsf@gnu.org> <83wrxj1o92.fsf@gnu.org> <83vdd220yk.fsf@gnu.org> <83r5nq1vox.fsf@gnu.org> <83iq920w4t.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268507049 14219 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2010 19:04:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 13 20:04:05 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 1NqWd1-000880-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:04:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqWd0-0007aL-P7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:04:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NqWcu-0007aC-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:03:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48354 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqWcr-0007Z7-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqWcq-0002Tt-04 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:54926) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqWcp-0002Tj-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:03:51 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZ800600I5SKY00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:03:49 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.214.230]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZ8001BCIABSGD0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:03:48 +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:121914 Archived-At: > From: James Cloos > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:16:42 -0500 > > >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > > EZ> I'm still unclear why it makes more sense to have a public branch > EZ> than to merge with the trunk. > > Just to get it out there before the merge. > > I we cannot convince you to let us see it and test it out now, I > suppose there is no reason. :( IMO, it doesn't make sense to publish code that wasn't yet made to compile on anything but GNU/Windows (i.e., the Windows build will be broken), and which I never tried to run in a GUI session. Why would anyone want to see such code so badly? I hope to get past those two obstacles in about 4 weeks, and then I'll be ready to go public. The merge itself is a non-issue, since I'm resyncing with the trunk every week. Stefan and Yidong agreed to this plan.