Re: Willing to Contribute to Emacs NS-Port Development

[Charles Choi <kickingvegas@gmail.com>]

While I do find it somewhat distressing that there are no maintainers for the Cocoa port (is that really true?), I wonder if there are any metrics to support the assertion that the current Cocoa port is unstable. While I don't regularly use the macOS build distributed by GNU, I do use daily the Mitsuharu fork of Emacs on macOS without surprise and have done so for years. Even that though is anecdotal. Are there tickets to back up the story of unstable macOS behavior?

- Charles

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Charles Y. Choi, Ph.D.
kickingvegas@gmail.com



> On Aug 6, 2024, at 6:08 AM, Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not an Emacs maintainer. I'm a macOS user, exclusively, and
> sometimes I'm contributing this or that.
> 
> From my POV, what is missing are Cocoa (macOS GUI) developers. The Cocoa
> port is unmaintained and has serious stability problems, i.e. it freezes
> and crashes much too frequently on macOS.
> 
> Without someone familiar with Cocoa who can fix things, testing won't
> help much.
> 
> My 2 cents only, of course.