Re: Emacs on OS X development

[chad]

On Jul 18, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Donald Curtis wrote:

After thinking about all the discussion here, and the rule that "every feature in Emacs should work in the GNU system, and should work at least as well in the GNU system as it does on any other platform" puts these "mac" patches in a predicament.

This is really more of a strong guideline than an absolute rule - things that don't make sense on other platforms but are considered standard or core for the non-GNU platform are allowed.  

I will try to work on creating .app binaries for this.  There has to be a simple way as someone is packaging Emacs.app now...

Earlier in this thread, Sudish Joseph pointed out a script that supposedly creates relocatable mac apps from that tree:

On Jul 14, 2012, at 3:35 AM, Sudish Joseph wrote:

https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port contains a
build-emacs.app.sh script that builds the relocatable mac port app
you're looking for.  

Maybe this will help; I haven't tried it, since I'm more interested in the dev tree than the mac port (the ns port has worked well for me for several years).

Hope that helps,

*Chad