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Re: Emacs Mac port
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YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu |
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Re: Emacs Mac port |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:13:01 +0900 |
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>>>>> On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 14:21:00 -0800, John Wiegley <address@hidden> said:
>> I'd rather like to avoid having/maintaining multiple versions of
>> the Mac port, because that doesn't look better than the present
>> situation. Currently I feel inclined to keep it separated from the
>> standard distribution.
> Unless I misunderstand, right now you are maintaining a patch. If we
> merge most of your work (though apparently not all), doesn't this
> just meant that the size of the patch you maintain becomes much
> smaller? I'd think that no matter what, this is a win for any fork
> maintainer.
The size of the patch is not an issue; actually, the Mac specific
files are currently distributed as raw files rather than in the patch
form. Also, most of the port-independent part has already been
committed to the emacs-25 branch.
Maintaining a single version is much simpler especially when it comes
to processing bug reports, reproducing them, and trying fix
candidates.
If there were no alternative for Mac-native GUI ports, or there is a
consensus that it is not good enough, then it would be meaningful to
have an FSF-policy compliant version as well as a full-feature version
despite the maintenance burden. But that is not the case.
I don't think it is a good idea to have a restricted version of the
Mac port whereas the developer is not willing to provide it and most
of the current Mac port users would skip it preferring the
full-feature version.
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
address@hidden
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Daniel Colascione, 2016/01/01
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2016/01/01
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Daniel Colascione, 2016/01/01
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Ingo Lohmar, 2016/01/01
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Bozhidar Batsov, 2016/01/01
- Re: Emacs Mac port, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2016/01/02
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2016/01/02
- Re: Emacs Mac port,
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <=
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Bozhidar Batsov, 2016/01/03
- Re: Emacs Mac port, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2016/01/03
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2016/01/03
- Re: Emacs Mac port, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2016/01/04
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Chad Brown, 2016/01/04
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2016/01/04
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Alan Schmitt, 2016/01/06
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Martin Yrjölä, 2016/01/05
- Re: Emacs Mac port, João Távora, 2016/01/05
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Paul Michael Reilly, 2016/01/05