From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bidi support Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:45:05 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87praszybe.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <838whgik6y.fsf@gnu.org> <8363cjipz6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bpm84dao.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251078334 10589 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2009 01:45:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 24 03:45:26 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 1MfOcg-0003kx-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:45:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfOcf-0002LL-HH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfOcZ-0002KW-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:45:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfOcV-0002Jq-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:45:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34419 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfOcV-0002Jn-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]:54776) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfOcR-00007m-Vf; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.115]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id n7O1j6CT023632; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:45:06 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp3.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id n7O1j6iA015259; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:45:06 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp3.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id n7O1j53f026071; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:45:05 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfOcL-0002oX-L3; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:45:05 +0900 In-reply-to: <87bpm84dao.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:114542 Archived-At: In article <87bpm84dao.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>, "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > Agreed. The more I think about it, the more I think we need to open > a new branch for "what will become emacs-24". > That's what I thought, too, about XEmacs 21.5. I was wrong. We ended > up having to uproot the trunk and move it to a branch, and graft the > 21.5 branch back as the trunk. Long-term development belongs either > on the trunk, or in feature branches. Not on a long-term development > branch which collects several features. Having an separate branch has at least one merit. As far as it is branched from a fairly stable version, a person working on the branch can be sure that any problem in that branch is caused by his change. For the case of bidi, if there's a plan of another big change in the display engine, the above merit is big. With a separate branch, people working on bidi code don't have to be annoyed by bugs of that another change. Otherwise, I think having bidi code in the trunk is better. 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. --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org