>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Wedler
<Wedler> writes:
Christoph> [1] I'll do that if I know the status of my other
Christoph> "real" patches.
Patches against 21.4 unless explicitly vetoed or returned for specific
revision (usually by me) or approved (which usually happens just
before a release, and so are normally announced by inclusion in the
release announcement), are "pending because not understood." They
generally stay that way for quite a while, because 21.4 is feature
frozen. They are basically the lowest thing on my priority list,
except for my personal development projects.
The fastest route to inclusion in a stable XEmacs for such patches is
submission for inclusion in the devel codebase or the Windows branch
of 21.4, testing, and then recommendation for 21.4.
The fastest route to getting your work to the users (who admittedly
need it) is to create a Lisp package which redefines those functions
appropriately. This will also get the feedback necessary to convince
me that the code is safe enough for the core.
For some reason this path is attractive to nobody, though. I really
don't understand why everybody insists on surgery first when various
forms of rehabilitative treatment would decrease risk for the patient,
and hasten recovery.
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