Re: PGTK-related misconceptions

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Tue 19 Apr 2022 at 09:02AM +08, Po Lu wrote:

> 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.

Cool, now done.

-- 
Sean Whitton