Re: Release planning

Malcolm> For a release in the next six months, Xft as the default Malcolm> X interface and acceptable Unicode support should be the Malcolm> key features. As Miles Bader's .sig says, "pick 2". If Ben comes back full-time for those six months, it's possible, but for the rest of us (developers) it will be extremely painful. Remember, we were much better off in terms of more or less complete features at this time in 2000, and we had a lot more experienced manpower. Malcolm> BTW, acceptable Unicode support does not necessarily mean Malcolm> complete support. Acceptable Unicode support does mean Unicode internally. Ben can do it, I don't know if he will. Without Ben, I don't think it will happen on that time schedule. (Maybe me + Aidan + Olivier + contribs from others, but it will require extreme discipline.) Acceptable support for both Xft and Unicode means fixing font.el and the face code. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.