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Re: Compiling Emacs with GTK


From: David Hansen
Subject: Re: Compiling Emacs with GTK
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:38:25 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:05:43 +0100 nfreimann wrote:

> David Hansen wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Is it that difficult to ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk ?
>>
> David, imagine for a moment, that there are *some* users out there who 
> are not familiar with "C" development, having not all development 
> libraries installed, or are otherwise unwilling doing time consuming 
> builds. If there is only a windows cvs emacs binary available then these 
> users clearly will prefer windows. Thats the price to pay for arrogance 
> and ignorance.

Probably these users should not use a *development* version.
It's working pretty well but it's not stable software.

David

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