Re: Things I would like to be added after the release

[joakim@verona.se]

<klaus.berndl@sdm.de> writes:

> joakim@verona.se wrote:
>
> But here is (4): Currently ECB contains a lot of compatibility-code so
> ECB runs as best as possible with Emacs and XEmacs... this is a goal of
> ECB and should remain as a goal. I doubt Richard wants to have XEmacs-
> compatibility-code in the ECB integrated in the Emacs-trunc ;-)
>
> But then we would have to maintain two ECB-trunks: That one integrated into
> Emacs and that one running with both emacs-flavors...
>
> In general i would greatly appreciate if ECB could be integrated into Emacs but
> seems really be a big big job...

As far as I've been able to gather from this list, having XEmacs
compatibility code in an Emacs package isnt a problem in principle,
though it might become a maintenance problem.

If ECB is integrated in Emacs, and interfaces between lisp code and
the C core are worked out, the maintenance burden might even become
less because XEmacs might choose to implement the same
interfaces. (Ok, this is naive optimism, but this list might benefit
from some of that :)

> To get a realistic picture about the necessary code-changing-efforts it would 
> help to get a "review" of the code from one of the Emacs-gurus responsible for
> Emacs-coding-guidelines and responsible for integrating big packages...
> The code is well documented (at least in most cases) and should follow
> Emacs coding standards... but its really a huge code-base!
>
> Klaus
>
>> 
>> 
>>> everyone involved.
>>> 
>>> Would people like to start on these tasks?

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