From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package xeft.el
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:14:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1pGvM1-0004wj-T9@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87358eqx03.fsf@web.de> (arne_bab@web.de)
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> But the downside is also less than with shipping pure binaries, because
> platforms without shipped native-compiled code will just have a longer
> startup time, but the package will still work.
Why do you expect this to affect startup time? Are you assuming the
first thing done after downloading the package will beto
native-compile it? Why should that be?
The package also works
> for them if there is no native compiler for the platform at all.
The downside for us is complexity, work, and maybe risk. Even if maintainers
are willing to do the work, that won't eliminate the other reasons.
I urge the maintainers to refuse it.
Meanwhile, such risk is bad for the GNU Project. When the benefit is
so little, it is better to say no.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-15 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-03 4:11 [ELPA] New package xeft.el Yuan Fu
2023-01-04 8:08 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-04 16:46 ` Fu Yuan
2023-01-06 17:34 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-10 10:48 ` Yuan Fu
2023-01-04 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-01-04 19:38 ` Karl Fogel
2023-01-06 5:48 ` Yuan Fu
2023-01-06 5:46 ` Yuan Fu
2023-01-06 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-01-10 10:57 ` Yuan Fu
2023-01-13 4:51 ` Richard Stallman
2023-01-13 9:54 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-01-15 5:14 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2023-01-16 7:48 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-01-17 4:57 ` Richard Stallman
2023-01-17 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-23 4:23 ` Richard Stallman
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