Re: Efforts to attract more users?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 13:41, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you want to I can send you the latest working version of
>>>>>> emacsclient.c and so we can perhaps start where we left off.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, as long as it is totally "reordered" wrt the trunk's version.
>>>>
>>>> The reordering is done exactly to make emacsclient.c start Emacs when 
>>>> needed.
>>>>
>>>> So I do not understand what you ask for.
>>>
>>> I don't have the context for what you are talking about, what code are you 
>>> trying to merge?
>>> But emacsclient.c is 1800 lines in trunk now, there's no complicated 
>>> algorithms in there.
>>> It shouldn't be that complicated to use narrow-to-defun and merge function 
>>> by function...
>>
>>
>> I would be very glad if anyone has time to try to merge my version and
>> the trunk version.
>>
>> My version is in two parts, the general part and the w32 part. I
>> divided it this way to make the merge easier. Please take the files
>> here, maybe make a temporary bzr repository for those two files and go
>> ahead:
>
> You might want to first explain why would we want to merge your version.
>
>>   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/C/
>
> There's some files there with some non-suggestive names (-my.c,
> -my-ok.c) and there's nothing that explains what changes where made
> and why...
>
> It looks like you would be the best person to do the merge... Given
> that there's not that much code, it can't take more than a couple of
> hours.

I am in a hurry right now. I think any .c versions are ok to start with.

No, I am not the right person. I have suggested this to this list
before and it was not accepted. Someone else should do it.