From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest begins end-June Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:58:20 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87y61ojhp4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308029079 25592 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2011 05:24:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 07:24:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWM79-0008Lu-D5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:24:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45930 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWM78-0006rq-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWJph-0003kR-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWJpg-0001Rm-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:58:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:6992 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWJpe-0001RS-Fr; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:58:22 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAGjN9k1MCpO0/2dsb2JhbABSpjJ4iHK/coYkBJ0chBU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,362,1304308800"; d="scan'208";a="116227652" Original-Received: from 76-10-147-180.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([76.10.147.180]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 13 Jun 2011 22:58:20 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7AED56612F; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:58:20 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:29:39 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:140448 Archived-At: > Is there a plan for things that need to be finished? Nothing very specific, no. > For example given that lexical scoping is one of the new things in this > release it would be nice if more things could use it. The "term", > "language" and "international" subdirectories could be converted with > very little effort. This is not a priority, no. The main purpose of Emacs-24's lexical binding support is to make it possible to use efficient lexical binding. Maybe for Emacs-25, we will want to encourage conversion more explicitly, but not for now. Note for example that debugging lexically scoped code is not as well supported. > Also how about making sure that more programming modes are derived from > prog-mode? That would be nice, yes. Feel free to install such changes. Stefan