From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Whitton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PGTK-related misconceptions Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:46:14 -0700 Message-ID: <87v8v5x021.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> References: <87lew7qdtj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87zgkjvujl.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> <87czhfkldw.fsf@yahoo.com> <87sfqbvtcw.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> <87tuarj5lv.fsf@yahoo.com> <094f1b7a-9a50-07d4-8b7f-9ba65286b49c@gmail.com> <87czhdhomm.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15574"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu , Jim Porter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 19 04:47:40 2022 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 1ngdtz-0003jB-HG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; 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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:288640 Archived-At: Hello, On Tue 19 Apr 2022 at 09:02AM +08, Po Lu wrote: > Jim Porter 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