From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Android port of Emacs Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:50:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83v8fnslfz.fsf@gnu.org> <83edmask4z.fsf@gnu.org> <5c02371a-3c42-de66-70b7-4ed0d88cc3fa@gutov.dev> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38871"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 21 02:51:52 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 1qBm4c-0009od-Ey for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2023 02:51:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qBm3l-0004jT-01; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:50:57 -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 1qBm3j-0004jL-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:50:55 -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 1qBm3j-0004bJ-1T; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:50:55 -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=AaQCfwGDDw2VZubrk5+0eJaX+DuAoFx7Ar84DwPA6WQ=; b=LLvAcAGD9MTq JK9QZhwbN1dLhNf4L1CfJQY4Q8Tssyo+g6VnDujEGFUT0g/2Zzijihr4xBYUNia6Qcs2k7b23Kt2g /UBvmmCkOyH8xWBVfLMcbFACNlhH/mnN09XydTbCjo8ZpTPQu/tt8H0B4eru3ZwXv2MOGLjeUShtn eB20qmj3IEsa0Z4wTG6tWTXIKlAT+dNS/76fP1Qi9soxNQlO2vFePebTZy8iPzOUjk8ChcJjbzudN jvZpcaRpGEegx+z8wNLSQjnCVw0H5pmsNzDHUsK2j7Jy6DkpQbXi3NPJiWls1ZEmbwsP8++4DKz3I vQ17/A25fIr7nESPu8lhmQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qBm3i-0002r4-NW; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:50:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5c02371a-3c42-de66-70b7-4ed0d88cc3fa@gutov.dev> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 18 Jun 2023 04:10:35 +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:307101 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > We shouldn't be afraid to deprecate and remove unmaintained ports. And > we shouldn't (like Po already said) delay releases over them. Assuming that Po Lu continues to maintain the Android support, and that we don't delay releases over them, the only issue is whether the changes for Android cause trouble in the non-Android code that delays a release. How likely is that? People will be able to try out the changes on other systems and get problems fixed. Once that is done, maybe such problems will be rare and not a significant obstacle to non-Android maintenance. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)