Re: Pretest

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 11/20/06, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Well, the "detach" stuff certainly had a bit of handwaving to it, but
> I fleshed it out in later posts by proposing an additional
> "emacsproxy" which would work without "fork" and similar niceties.

Yes, you're right.

> Lennart's would be easier to sneak in under the "we are in pretest, no
> new features" reign, but personally I don't feel it is the most robust
> way to tackle the problem

FWIW, I agree. That's not to say that Lennart's not done a good job
and has put quite a lot of time or thought on it. He has. But I think
the fix is not very mature yet.

> and it also would require updating manual
> pages and documentation and stuff.

Documentation still requires updating wrt the TCP stuff. I haven't
done it because I'm waiting for the dust to settle regarding this
additional matter.

> So my personal feeling is that for 22.1, we should bring emacsclient
> under Windows merely up to what we already have under POSIX systems,
> and leave the design and testing of further improvements to 23.1

Agreed, again.

                   /L/e/k/t/u