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Re: Emacs and the Google Summer of Code
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Nick Roberts |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs and the Google Summer of Code |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:21:07 +1200 |
> > I know that RMS does not like this idea, as he thinks that all focus
> > will shift to the new branch, but I'm not sure if that's true and
> > there are drawbacks in not having one. Debian seem to manage with
> > both a testing and unstable distribution.
>
> This is a completely different issue. We're talking about a branch for
> a particular feature. We're not talking about opening "a new trunk".
I probably wasn't very clear but that's exactly what I was talking about.
Yidong's post also seems to suggest that this might be possible. Creating
a sparate branch for one Emacs mode is probably not worthwhile as experience
from GDB tells me that very few people would check that branch out.
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