From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits? Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 11:44:20 +0200 Message-ID: <831rdke1zf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <07D5E64D-DAD0-45B3-B272-627A73D7CBAE@gmail.com> <7308DB2C-27A5-4227-A1F9-9949EE558052@gmail.com> <87sg6alweo.fsf@gnus.org> <87pn1erewq.fsf@gmail.com> <87wnvlecrw.fsf@gnus.org> <83sg69o3av.fsf@gnu.org> <87mtwhctte.fsf@gnus.org> <459A0475-E3E7-4159-82DF-93809CCF1E24@gmail.com> <87eehng52n.fsf@gnus.org> <87mtwbye5b.fsf@gmail.com> <87czx7ycva.fsf@tcd.ie> <87eehmyalr.fsf@gmail.com> <877dneoewi.fsf@tcd.ie> <875z2yy6z7.fsf@gmail.com> <878s7twq2t.fsf@gmail.com> <84adc238-c424-bb6b-da28-c4232172da5b@gmx.at> <83zh09dtmo.fsf@gnu.org> <34b1d975-406d-7bf4-a270-47fe7944256f@gmx.at> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29195"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, yandros@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 13 10:46:30 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lArVV-0007U0-6e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:46:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43022 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lArVU-0007aC-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 04:46:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lArTV-0006ZA-EA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 04:44:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46096) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lArTU-0001UT-6L; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 04:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4506 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lArTT-0004Uu-LZ; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 04:44:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <34b1d975-406d-7bf4-a270-47fe7944256f@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:01:14 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:264588 Archived-At: > Cc: casouri@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, alan@idiocy.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > yandros@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org > From: martin rudalics > Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:01:14 +0100 > > >> Why should people "test" it more when it's been merged? > > > > Because presumably building a pgtk port will need some non-default > > switch to the configure script? And if no one uses that switch, the > > merged code will remain unused? > > I'm confused. How would that switch be related to the question whether > people test anything more when it's been merged in than when it's on a > separate branch? They need the switch in either case. But using the switch is much easier than checking out a separate branch, is it not? > > I think those positioning issues need to be fixed before we will agree > > to merge the branch. > > If no one tests them how will they get fixed? They were already reported, so we don't need any more testing to know these problems exist.