Re: Release update

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Yavor Doganov <address@hidden> writes:

  > At Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:43:01 -0500,
  > Chong Yidong wrote:
  > > 
  > > We are getting pretty close, and currently there are two main things
  > > to do before starting the pretest: adding ruby-mode to the CVS
  > > repository, and making rmail-mbox/pmail ready for use.
  > 
  > I don't know what is the Emacs maintainers' opinion about the GNUstep
  > port wrt release status/goals, but I'd like to mention that in its
  > current form it is not usable as a replacement of GTK+/Lucid/nox.
  > Maybe this is not a problem in general, as probably the main goal of
  > the port is to make Emacs available for users of the Muck OS X system
  > (as a replacement of the Carbon port).
  > 
  > I don't see it this way, though, although I realize I'm in the
  > minority.  As a GNUstep user my goal is to use Emacs.app as a
  > replacement of the Lucid build (or the GTK+ build with the GTK-Step
  > GTK theme).  This is not possible now, even with my extremely low
  > Emacs usage requirements.
  > 
  > Whether this is considered release-critical is up to the Emacs
  > maintainers to decide, naturally.

At the time the nextstep code was checked in Stefan said that it won't
delay a release.  And it probably was a good decision, although A LOT of
people report bugs, unfortunately only the maintainer works on fixing
them.  Not sure why it's so hard to attract developers...