On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Seems to me that GNUStep is killing the user experience of the people that
> > are actually using the NS port.
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> WTF? How do you get to this conclusion? The OP has already been told
> that it's perfectly OK to just ifdef out the NS-only code.
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I guess I misinterpreted the last few mails in the discussion. I was left under the impression that only
code compatible with GNUStep is eligible for inclusion in Emacs.
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> > Maybe this is a policy worth revisiting for the sake of the people
> > that use the NS port?
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> People who use the NS port and aren't satisfied with it should start
> contributing code, because we really don't have nearly
> enough contributors. As Jan pointed out, a non-negligible fraction of
> bugs fixed in the NS code are due to Jan who could only do that thanks
> to the GNUstep support, so claiming that the GNUstep support is killing
> the NS port is ridiculous.
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Fair points - I wasn’t aware of the lack of NS contributions. Admittedly I’m not overly familiar with the NS port, having used Emacs mostly on GNU/Linux.  
I know, however, there is some enhanced NS port of Emacs (https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port) and I wonder
why aren’t the (some) patches from it applied upstream.

Anyways, I’m dabbling into Objective-C and Cocoa right now. If I manage to grok them I might try to contribute to the NS port.

Please, accept my apologies, if I offended someone. I meant no disrespect.  
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> Stefan