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Re: Merging multitty
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: Merging multitty |
Date: |
Sat, 12 May 2007 12:32:08 -0700 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Fixing multi-tty on Windows and other platforms does not really need any
> platform API experience: it's mostly a matter of understanding C
> compiler error messages and changing references to previously global C
> variables to their new terminal-local places (accessible via a frame
> handle). If the code compiles successfully, it will likely work.
>
> Let's install this code in a branch in the Emacs repository
> immediately. That way, other people with write access to our
> repository can work on making it compile on other systems.
>
> Yes. If you guys decide to merge the Unicode branch first, I'll simply
> devote a weekend to resolve merge conflicts and continue syncing with
> the trunk as long as necessary.
>
> In that case, I agree we may as well merge the unicode-2 branch first.
How about considering the size of the code to merge before making a
decision?
For multi-tty the diffstat summary for the diff between multi-tty and
CVS HEAD is:
(I tried to exclude all the generated files, from the diff)
89 files changed, 5200 insertions(+), 2374 deletions(-)
For multi-tty a lot of the changes are mechanical: adding an extra
parameter to some function calls, adding an extra level of
indirection, etc.
For the emacs-unicode-2 the diffstat summary is:
271 files changed, 29930 insertions(+), 26730 deletions(-)
For multi-tty there have not been any reports of crashes in a long
time (more than a 1 1/2 years if I recall correctly).
Given that multi-tty is a much smaller change, and it touches a much
smaller area of emacs and that the unicode branch is a much more
fundamental change, it should be easier to stabilize the trunk after
merging multi-tty. So, IMHO, it would be more efficient to first
merge multi-tty and after that the unicode branch.
- Re: Reordering etc/NEWS, (continued)
- Re: Reordering etc/NEWS, Nick Roberts, 2007/05/11
- Merging multitty (was: Reordering etc/NEWS), David Kastrup, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, Jason Rumney, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, David Kastrup, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, Jason Rumney, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, David Kastrup, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, Karoly Lorentey, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, Richard Stallman, 2007/05/12
- Re: Merging multitty, David Kastrup, 2007/05/12
- Re: Merging multitty, Kenichi Handa, 2007/05/14
- Re: Merging multitty,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: Merging multitty, David Kastrup, 2007/05/12
- Re: Merging multitty, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/05/12
- Re: Merging multitty, David Kastrup, 2007/05/12
- Re: Merging multitty, rentey <address@hidden>, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, Kenichi Handa, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, David Kastrup, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, David Kastrup, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, David Kastrup, 2007/05/11
- Re: Merging multitty, Jason Rumney, 2007/05/11