From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Android port of Emacs Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:47:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83v8fnslfz.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8fnh1h2.fsf@web.de> <83mt0zs9rc.fsf@gnu.org> <0a968a4e1b267c0f15dd237e6ea12a709fc06d5e.camel@yandex.ru> <838rcisj7o.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30155"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, arne_bab@web.de, luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Konstantin Kharlamov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 17 18:48:35 2023 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 1qAZ6J-0007aV-8z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2023 18:48:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAZ5W-0005CE-Di; Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAZ5U-0005Bv-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:47:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAZ5U-0006Xc-E6; Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:47:44 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=kxxNjXFk1OgWXShvH3h7+7FZwGWkghPSZVV9sHT7Vzk=; b=LhULO1Nr6c1i 9RNH0Q4cz7A/YBHudVmH98FyE3Q3yjpSZBr1uiKTc4Eh4+zaD6W516tp8oCN/wT29re3e6iNrzvxV Uc0Eid55F3MQIvf4Q5AugE4hHnKuEm5ZVdTPq7Ra9yJ9MAs+li1nCyKOQ9sKoKFO0iKMswCV6AflQ +ysg8BM5C1rh3jvyrG7qP1BUplZsJUrxfLOtFhPW3bPEvQCKFUaNQAznMzE0mONsPONfp4bCoYpYH uma8eEIW73ctdD2kZ6mQdBC5Z3x2jxny/Ls/0U3n33lkxARr6EVuUafcvVAGIlfnDk3Ws8o8D3yu3 i2Y5Gv+bX0ULyggVjGNjhw==; Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAZ5U-0001dd-70; Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:47:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Konstantin Kharlamov on Sat, 17 Jun 2023 16:34:16 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306881 Archived-At: > > Increase of userbase may potentially result in new developers and > > maintainers. > > Our experience with NS and w32 ports indicates this is a false hope. To be fair, Emacs is notoriously hard to contribute to, so to have new devs/maintainers appear requires substantially larger increase of the userbase compared to an increase needed in other projects. Still worth a try though. Notoriously hard? It is one of the easiest projects, you send a patch, one of the amazing people who work on Emacs looks over it, and if you have your papers in order, it is commited or commented on. That is not very hard. Best is to avoid such crazy overblown generalizations...