Hi, On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Adrian Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 6, 2008, at 11:30 PM, İsmail Dönmez wrote: > > > Hi Adrian and others, > > > > Currently on emacs-devel Carbon port and its broken state is currently > > under discussion. And looks like, (like me) people are expecting a > > Emacs.app merge into CVS before the code freeze. I think it would be > > nice if Adrian could involve in this discussion and Emacs.app merger > > could start sooner than later. > > Thanks for the heads-up -- when is this code freeze currently scheduled?
Looking at the discussion seems like June is likely, with 6 months of freeze-test-release cycle. > The things I'm aware of standing in the way of merge are: > > 1) Status of changes to Objective-C handling in cc-mode (fontify > message sends, etc.). A patch has been sent to Alan Mackenzie (cc- > mode maintainer) and he seemed initially favorable to accepting it, > but has since gotten caught up in other stuff. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/91352 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/80776 Looks good to go. > 2) GNUstep operation. Chris Hall posted here some patches, which I > incorporated, however emacs dev Stephan Monnier was unable to run on > his Debian machine with them. The GNUstep build has always been > finicky but it would be nice to get it a bit more robust if > possible. The first step to this IMHO is to get it working in dumped > form. CANNOT_DUMP support in emacs is unreliable, and anyway startup > is quite slow w/o dumping. Fixing this would be good but I got no GNUStep at hand. > 3) Configure/build improvements. Dan Christiansen posted some > improvements here, however I'm unable to incorporate them without > copyright assignment. This isn't my requirement, it's required by > GNU to contribute code there. This can be done post-merge imho. > 4) General bug fixing. People have continued to post bugs, and I > haven't had much time for squashing them. Ditto for this one: > The up-to-the-minute code > is now available under a bzr branch at GNU savannah as posted here > earlier. Is there anything else I could do to make it easier for > others to contribute? If its merged it'll be on CVS with bzr/git mirrors, so it'll be way easier to fix it. Regards and thanks for your work, ismail -- Never learn by your mistakes, if you do you may never dare to try again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Emacs-app-dev- mailing list Emacs-app-dev-@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-app-dev-
