Re: New maintainer

[Karl Fogel]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:59 PM, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:

  A. Emacs is only allowed to provide the feature for GCC, and must wait until
     GCC makes it available (if ever).

  B. Emacs can only offer the feature for other compilers too, but only once
     it is able to offer it for GCC. This means we are blocked on GCC
     development before we can support other compilers.

  C. If Emacs can support the feature in a _general_ fashion -- so that GCC
     could just as easily be supported as Clang -- then Clang support is
     allowed before GCC support, assuming Clang has it and GCC doesn't (or
     might never).

  D. Emacs is allowed to directly support Clang features that GCC never will,
     because this makes Emacs a better editor.

I'm pretty sure D is out, based on RMS' past comments. I also think A is out.
My question is whether Emacs project policy is B, C, or something more.

I believe it is (B).

Best,

-K