Re: Release planning

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:46:08PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Let me second that. I have corrected minor glitches in the Xft branch since I started using XEmacs one a month ago. At the moment I'm looking at code of unbind_to_hairy, because it SIGSEGVs when putting debug_print into Fthrow. So, probably you will see more complex bug fixes in the future coming from my mail address. However, despite having done such ugly things as Linux kernel programming, I like beautiful things. Xft is beautiful. I would NEVER have looked at XEmacs if there wasn't sjt's xft branch. I consider it a smart move, if sjt-xft was merged into MAIN and released explicitly tagged as "experimental". Remember the hype X.Org experienced when they announced XComposite in 6.8.2? We can use the same effect to raise the attentation towards XEmacs. One example of "catching-other-developer's-attention" you got already: me. Btw: I use only sjt-xft for my emacs work. I rarely see crashes, and if I do, the MAIN branch is also crashing at that point. And performance wise: The performance might not be ok when compared with non-xft emacs, but it is really ok when compared with other bigger projects like openoffice or Evolution. So don't be overmodest, the sjt-xft branch is really worth to be merged and tagged experimental. -- Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org for robots: sp4mtrap(a)endorphin.org