From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Mac port Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 23:35:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn9a8an8.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451342146 19221 80.91.229.3 (28 Dec 2015 22:35:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 22:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 28 23:35:37 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDgO8-0001Pc-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 23:35:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDgO8-0006Dc-CO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:35:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53595) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDgNv-0006DF-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:35:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDgNr-0003RK-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:35:23 -0500 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:44819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDgNr-0003Qo-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:35:19 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=vrETooVjQxct9rGw43hlpnm4wr7mXt/MrobfcO9if8Y=; b=K3AYB8M9n7U5BpZdXJQLCGs+LK6Eas7MflpK1nGhhe4rDJ995Pnrp2lYmA2HJhIC/57T/N3pAataGZfwcA4dKOaWdSgMeendb1MJhcq7hBZH7cRgr1p+v/CgPaNcP7Sr; Original-Received: from ip4d1494ed.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([77.20.148.237] helo=isaac.fritz.box) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aDgNk-0002mV-2P; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 23:35:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:29:16 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197042 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu writes: >> Originally, the Mac port was not intended for inclusion to the main >> distribution, but for my private and classroom use. But if the inclusion is >> useful and meaningful for many people, then I'll make some effort to do >> that. > > It would not only be useful and meaningful to me, but it also has been to > every other Mac user I've recommended it to. They may not be on their list to > chime in, so allow me to proxy for them. > > I'd very much like to see this included in the main distribution. You skipped over this concern from Yamamoto-san, which I think is very valid: > In particular, I suspect the inclusion of the following features might > be controversial whether they can be regarded as specific to Mac: AFAIK I think it is not OK to have features that are specific to a non-free plattform, so I'd suggest to discuss this with Richard first before encouraging work on a possible merge. -David