From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PGTK-related misconceptions
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 09:02:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czhdhomm.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <094f1b7a-9a50-07d4-8b7f-9ba65286b49c@gmail.com> (Jim Porter's message of "Mon, 18 Apr 2022 12:49:49 -0700")
Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:
> Reading through these sections of INSTALL, I found it very easy to
> assume that PGTK was a direct upgrade that would just let me "switch
> between running Emacs on X, Wayland and Broadway". An
> extremely-careful reader might then wonder why "--with-pgtk" isn't
> enabled by default on systems with the necessary dependencies, but
> that only *implies* that there are downsides to PGTK rather than
> stating it.
>
> I think it would be best to state explicitly that there are problems
> with the PGTK build, though INSTALL probably doesn't need to go into
> any more detail than that. In practice, a lot of people will probably
> just skim the documentation, so they might miss some of the more
> subtle points unless they're very clearly called out.
Sure, I won't insist if everyone else seems to agree this should be
mentioned (again) in INSTALL.
Feel free to install changes to that effect.
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2022-04-15 2:29 ` PGTK-related misconceptions Po Lu
2022-04-15 7:11 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-04-15 16:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-04-18 5:18 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-18 5:31 ` Po Lu
2022-04-18 5:43 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-18 5:57 ` Po Lu
2022-04-18 18:27 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-18 19:49 ` Jim Porter
2022-04-19 1:02 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-04-19 2:46 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-19 2:18 ` Tim Cross
2022-04-19 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 8:13 ` Tim Cross
2022-04-19 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 9:10 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2022-04-19 10:42 ` Po Lu
2022-04-19 11:53 ` Phil Sainty
2022-04-19 13:58 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-20 3:29 ` Phil Sainty
2022-04-20 4:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-19 16:51 ` Yuri Khan
2022-04-22 5:44 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-04-18 21:50 Trey
2022-04-19 0:59 ` Po Lu
2022-04-19 3:28 ` Trey Peacock
2022-04-19 4:27 ` Po Lu
2022-04-19 23:02 ` Trey Peacock
2022-04-20 0:48 ` Po Lu
2022-04-20 2:33 ` Trey Peacock
2022-04-20 4:05 ` Po Lu
2022-07-25 21:18 ` Akira Kyle
2022-07-26 2:08 ` Po Lu
2022-07-26 12:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-26 12:35 ` Po Lu
2022-07-29 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-30 0:58 ` Po Lu
2022-07-26 21:36 ` Akira Kyle
2022-07-27 2:48 ` Po Lu
2022-07-27 8:34 ` Trey Peacock
2022-07-27 9:10 ` Po Lu
2022-07-27 13:45 ` Trey Peacock
2022-07-27 13:52 ` Po Lu
2022-07-28 1:39 ` Akira Kyle
2022-07-28 2:50 ` Po Lu
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2022-04-20 7:52 Trey Peacock
2022-04-20 8:25 ` Po Lu
2022-04-20 13:13 ` Brian Cully
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