Re: Emacs and the Google Summer of Code

[Nick Roberts]

 > > I know that RMS does not like this idea, as he thinks that all focus
 > > will shift to the new branch, but I'm not sure if that's true and
 > > there are drawbacks in not having one.  Debian seem to manage with
 > > both a testing and unstable distribution.
 > 
 > This is a completely different issue.  We're talking about a branch for
 > a particular feature.  We're not talking about opening "a new trunk".

I probably wasn't very clear but that's exactly what I was talking about.
Yidong's post also seems to suggest that this might be possible.  Creating
a sparate branch for one Emacs mode is probably not worthwhile as experience
from GDB tells me that very few people would check that branch out.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob