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>>>>> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, Marijn wrote: |
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> Perhaps now is also a good time to do a roll-call/status update of |
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> what people are working on in the various subprojects (CL, scheme, |
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> (x)emacs), who is active or not, whether any recruits are being |
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> trained, anything else that you care to mention. |
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> (emacs) fauli, ulm |
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Emacs team is more or less in maintenance mode. We think that our |
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eclasses serve their purpose well, and the tree is in reasonable |
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shape. |
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Upstream, there is a trend that the more important packages are being |
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absorbed by Emacs proper. So we may have to remove some packages from |
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the app-emacs category, or add conditionals to deactivate them for |
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newer Emacs versions. |
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GNU Emacs 23 was released almost two years ago. Some of the main new |
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features in Emacs 24 will be support for bi-directional text and for |
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lexical binding. Both have been merged to the trunk, so hopefully |
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we'll see the release of Emacs 24 in less than a year from now (it |
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took 10 months from 22.3 to 23.1, so by extrapolation 24.1 would be |
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released in January 2012 ;-) ). |
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For the micro-emacsen, one notable development is that Zile will move |
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from C to Lua. We'll have to see what are the implications for us, |
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because app-editors/zile is on the Gentoo minimal install CD. |
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Ulrich |