Multi-tty branch status (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS)

[Karoly Lorentey]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> If the multitty branch works on w32 already, then that gives me a lot
> more confidence.
> 
> My main concern was that it had never been tried to my knowledge, and
> due to the nature of the changes, there probably is work to do on w32
> just to get Emacs to compile if all the work so far has focused on  tty
> and X usage.

Fixing the compile is basically all that is necessary.  I don't think
Windows applications can support multiple displays, so that port will
remain single-terminal in functionality (at least for now).

> The problem is that this work has gone on outside the
> normal emacs development community, so information of this sort is hard
> to come by. 

Yes, this is unfortunate; it was dictated by circumstances.

> Another concern would be whether we have papers for everyone
> who has contributed to this branch.

I changed employers last summer and need to have the papers signed again
before the merge; this shouldn't be a problem.  Dan Nicolaescu, Han
Boetes and Kalle Olavi Niemitalo helped by submitting short patches.
There might have been a few one-liner bugfixes from other people; I will
check my logs.  There were no other code contributions, but loads of
helpful discussion and bug reports.

-- 
Karoly