Re: Carbon port emacs-unicode-2 build problem under MacOSX

[Jason Rumney]

Adrian Robert wrote:
> I was planning to ask about inclusion after finishing up the multi-tty
> integration.  But anyway since the issue has been raised, is autumn 2007 a 
> good
> time to consider merging the Cocoa/GNUstep port into the unicode-2 branch, or
> would people prefer to wait until after unicode-2 -> trunk?  Based on my
> experiences, the latter approach would be much less headache, but don't know 
> how
> far off the unicode merge is at the moment.
>   


I'd suggest the following timetable.

1. Start the 22.2 pretest (hopefully a short pretest cycle).
2. Release 22.2 without getting distracted by more merges.
3. Merge unicode-2 to the trunk (I think it is ready now, so immediately
after 22.2 release would be good).
4. Merge Cocoa port (if 22.2 pretest starts taking a long time though,
it might be better to merge to unicode-2 earlier).
5. Enable new font-backend by default.
6. Remove the old font code (which unless someone implements a backend
for Carbon, implies the end of the Carbon port)