From: stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: numbchild@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: Support text-shadow on for Emacs face
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 18:50:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imgkwao7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1jd4p9-0006ND-SN@fencepost.gnu.org>
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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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>
> > I can contact the author of this patch, he doesn't have progress
> > on supporting Linux. I'm thinking whether Emacs-dev team can
> > implement this feature by own design.
>
> If someone wants to implement this for GNU/Linux, that would be good,
> and then we could install the MacOS code for the same feature. But I
> can't implore people to write that so we could install the code for
> MacOS. MacOS support is a secondary matter.
>
> Or maybe considering merge this macOS support patch at first
>
> That would be taking an unwise risk. What if we installed that MacOS
> feature, and months went by and no one wrote a similar feature for
> GNU/Linux? We would be in a bad situation, doing what we shouldn't.
>
> We could delete that MacOS code at that point. But that is asking
> for trouble. It is wiser to avoid getting into that situation.
>
> That is why our policy is not to install features that work only on a
> non-GNU platform. See the node System Portability in the GNU Coding
> Standards, https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/.
Sound reasonable, I leaved a message to the author of that macOS patch. Hope he
can take time to implement it.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-25 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-22 11:38 Support text-shadow on for Emacs face stardiviner
2020-05-22 12:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-22 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 12:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-22 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 13:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-22 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-22 13:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-23 0:56 ` stardiviner
[not found] ` <83k11316af.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-05-23 11:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-23 12:34 ` stardiviner
2020-05-25 4:34 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-25 10:50 ` stardiviner [this message]
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