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 support Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:12:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83y6p9ewgj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87praszybe.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <838whgik6y.fsf@gnu.org> <8363cjipz6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bpm84dao.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251083584 20294 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2009 03:13:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, stephen@xemacs.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 24 05:12:56 2009 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 4.50) id 1MfPzM-0006I7-5p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:12:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfPzL-0003Yc-EG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfPzG-0003YX-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfPzC-0003Sv-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32940 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfPzC-0003Sh-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:47070) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfPzB-0001Da-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:12:45 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KOV0020024YKQ00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:12:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.180.85]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KOV001VG297YQ40@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:12:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:114545 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > CC: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:45:05 +0900 > > By the way, the case of emacs-unicode is very special. It > simply can't be in the trunk while developing because the > new unicode feature can't be toggled. Exactly, and that's precisely why the bidi development _can_ be done on the trunk without the burden of distinguishing its bugs from the others: toggle the feature off, and if the bug persists, it's not from bidi. OTOH, the HUGE advantage of working on the trunk is that you don't need to merge all the time, or risk falling out of sync. You also don't inherit random bugs that existed at the time of the branch creation.