Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

[Stefan Monnier]

> 1) When is the best estimate of when 22.1 will come out?

Not before 2006.

> My second question concerns the unicode-2 branch of CVS.  As I  understand

I don't know much about Aqua/Cocoa/Carbon, and more specifically I don't
know how different are Cocoa and Carbon, so I don't know who much of the
Carbon work can be used for the Cocoa work.  From the sound of your message
and a few others I've seen in the past, it seems that the Carbon port is of
no use for the Cocoa port.  Too bad.

But AFAIK the Cocoa API uses utf-8 or Unicode throughout, so I think it
would make a lot of sense to start from the emacs-unicode branch.
That will also help you avoid having to play catch up.

OTOH if the work can be expected to take in the order of a few months only
(i.e. a large part of the work you've done on 20.7 can be reused with little
or no changes), it would also make sense to start from the current HEAD (to
be 22.1).

In any case I think such an effort should aim to be included in the official
Emacs release.


        Stefan