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Re: Release plans
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Release plans |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:41:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
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