From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: merging Unicode branch and availability of Windows binaries Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 07:16:29 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179152252 11704 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2007 14:17:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 16:17:30 2007 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 1HnbMd-00078F-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 16:17:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnbUO-00006S-A7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 10:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnbUK-0008TY-55 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 10:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnbUF-0008Ml-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 10:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnbUF-0008Mb-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 10:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HnbMR-0008B8-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 10:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (rgmgw3.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.112]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l4EEGnax010574; Mon, 14 May 2007 08:16:50 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l4EEGmrZ024215; Mon, 14 May 2007 08:16:49 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-83-100.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2695208991179152190; Mon, 14 May 2007 07:16:30 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:71032 Archived-At: Resending. > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 6:35 AM > Caveat: I haven't followed the merge thread closely, and I'm ignorant of > most of what you are discussing there. > > Question: Regardless of what you decide about merging, will there be > available for users, somewhere, a Windows binary of the 22 > release (as it is > before merge of the Unicode branch)? Until now, I've only found Windows > binaries of the latest CVS build, which, after the merge, would presumably > include Unicode. > > I ask because I've had reports by an Icicles user on Emacs 23 > (Unicode) that > Icicles key completion does not work with that version. I don't have a > Windows binary of 23, so I haven't been able to look at the problem. If > Emacs 23 treatment of keymaps or key bindings is very different, then > perhaps I'll need to start over, to implement key-completion differently. > (Or perhaps key completion will be impossible or unfeasible for > the Unicode > version.) > > I would like for Emacs users to continue to be able to find > Windows binaries > of the stable Emacs 22, even after Emacs 23 is merged, and I would like, > myself, to be able to find a Windows binary of Emacs 23 (before > or after the > merge), to be able to look into the Icicles key-completion problems. Until > now, I've been using Lennart's vanilla Emacs 22 builds on Windows, but I > don't know what Lennart will make available after the merge. My > question is, > will I be able to find binaries of both Emacs 22 (without Unicode) and 23 > (with Unicode) after the merge? Will the former be available from GNU, for > instance, and the latter from Lennart? Or both from Lennart?