Re: copyrights to be fixed

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>      Are there major gaps in the features?
>>
>>     No, not that I have seen.
>>
>> A small number of people can't tell the answer to this question by
>> running the program.
>>
>> We need the people who implemented the multi-tty code to tell us
>> whether there are cases they have not handled yet that need to be
>> handled to avoid loss of functionality.
>
> This readme contains a list of known issues:
>
> http://lorentey.hu/downloads/emacs/multi-tty/README.multi-tty
>
> For convenience I paste the Known Problems list here:
>
> Known problems:
>
>         * GTK support.  If you compile your Emacs with the GTK
>           toolkit, some functionality of multi-tty will be lost.  In
>           particular, you will not be able to work on multiple X
>           displays at once.  Current releases of GTK have limitations
>           and bugs that prevent full-blown multi-display support in
>           Emacs.  (GTK crashes when Emacs tries to disconnect from an
>           X server.)  Use the Lucid toolkit if you want to see a
>           complete feature set.

Ok, perhaps people will call me a lunatic for that, but I think this
would be a rather compelling reason to merge multi-tty support rather
sooner than later after releasing Emacs 22: there are rather few
applications for which multi-tty support and disconnecting from an X
server would be relevant.  GTK and/or Gnome are supposed to be GNU
desktop components, and we want to get problems with them ironed out.
Merging multi-tty early in the Emacs 23 process gives appropriate GTK
bug fixes a chance to make it out into the real world before Emacs 23
follows.  In contrast, I don't think that we have similar
"sympathetic" software releases to take into consideration in
connection with unicode2.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum