Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never).

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> I wrote:
> > I'd like to (post-release) merge my tiling branch too; I don't seen any
> > particularly good reason to keep it separate.  I think the only probable
> > conflict is with multi-tty (at the least because of RIF changes).
> 
> I did a test merge of multi-tty with tiling, and there are actually very few
> patch conflicts, though the RIF changes probably do mean there are few
> semantic errors in the result.
> 
> I'd love see the multi-tty changes go in -- not just because it's a great
> feature (and it is), but because I like the code cleanup.  Compared to the
> current "everything global all the time" code, it should make things a bit
> easier to understand, which is no small thing given the confusingness of the
> redisplay code.

Yes, I also look forward to the RIF cleanup from the multi-tty patch.
I had plans to do this cleanup myself sometime, but Romain beat me to it.

It should definitely go in soon after 21.5 is branched from trunk.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk