Re: Release plans

[David Kastrup]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> Just a reminder: we will begin the feature freeze for Emacs 23.1 at the
>> end of this month.
>>
>> The original plan was to merge CEDET in time for the freeze.  However,
>> this isn't going to happen because of a delay in legal paperwork;
>> hopefully, CEDET will be included in 23.2.
>
> I have doubts that CEDET can be included in Emacs 23 without adding
> more features because some parts have to be rewritten to be more clean
> (like replacing defadvices with Emacs native features etc.)

"delay in legal paperwork" is ringing all my alarm bells.  Paper work
that won't get done in a month is not likely to get done in a year.  I
don't see that dropping the ball now will make it easier to pick it up
next time round.

> Emacs 23.1 has enough major features, so maybe it makes sense to
> include CEDET in the next major release after 23.1 with more related
> Emacs features (like tabbed UI and others), and advertise it as Emacs
> IDE.

I'd really much prefer if we could get this over with.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum