Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> o Update the Texinfo docs
>
> This is a big one, and no doubt quite boring too. But it has to
> be done. SXEmacs manuals _must_ talk about SXEmacs, not XEmacs.
> A big renaming is needed. But...
>
> For you people who are thinking "I'll just write a little Perl
> script and do a global rename"... _WRONG_. There are going to be
such a stupid idea, cannot imagine how people come to think perl could be
a solution of something ;P
> lots of places where renaming "XEmacs" to "SXEmacs" will _not_ be
> the right thing to do. A manual renaming is going to be the
> safest way of doing it.
Nonetheless, I think I could manage to sacrifice some time with it.
Since this is an extra portion of stuff which is not required to build, I
think I'll start another branch for this here locally.
I cannot estimate time yet, since context analyses may vary.
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> Be especially careful of URL's and email addresses etc. (A side
> note: is `URI' the plural of `URL' or are they completely
> different things?)
Not completely different, a URI is the Universal Resource Identifier, the
differences are subtle, but most important is that a URI can carry a
portion of the document in its string (the definition says code fragment),
like http://www.some.foo/bar.html#fooagain1 or
scp://me@xxxxxxxx/path/to/bar/foo.c#line1288
In general the URI is more general than the corresponding URL (or even
URN), but that's just a margin note :)
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> o Begin windoze code eradication.
>
> We don't do windoze here, so the windoze code has to go. This
> will be a pretty big task, but most of it is #ifdef'd so shouldn't
> be too bad.
>
> If this doesn't get finished by release time, that's cool, it can
> continue into the next release. Oh, if it _does_ get finished by
> this release, well that'll be terrific!
Hm, I started to eliminate some occurences of windoze code just when I've
looked through some code for other reasons, so everybody could/should harm
the code by side-effect when viewing the sources.
This isnt really a dedicated search'n'destroy and it doesnt get you fast
to what you're looking for, but that way you can turn a rather boring task
to a minimum of effort.
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> o Bignum, bigfloat, ratio
>
> Jerry James implemented these in XE 21.5 and I know of at least
> one Berlin-based mathematician that loves them. :-)
Hehe ;P
Yeah along with that, I imagine bringing the whole openssl+gmp into
SXE. Gmp (mpf, mpi and mpq) for calculating with bignums and the hashes
and ciphers of openssl for security applications.
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> o Boehm GC (because it is thread-safe, and sexy)
Hm, but why backporting KKCC then?
> o XFT/UTF stuff
>
> Much to my dismay, the world seems to be going UTF or bust. We'll
> have to as well. :-( Of course if some miracle happens and the
> whole world starts speaking nothing but iso-8859-1 we can forget
> this one. :-)
I'd head the miracle ;)
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> o New widget toolkits.
>
> Should SXEmacs be "skin-able"?
Erm, what's that? We have color-theme.el and we have X resources, so
skinning is just a matter of providing a tarball of someone's dotfiles
along with a suited colour theme and maybe some toolbar-xpms.
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> o Display _anything_ in a buffer.
>
> Including full motion resizable video.
Yay :D
Greets
hroptatyr
Sebastian
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