Re: carbon build hangs on startup

[Cyrus Harmon <ch-emacs@bobobeach.com>]

I've been using this build for a few days now. IMHO, it would be nice  
if this were merged with the current CVS version. This would  
certainly be preferable to an abandoned, no-longer functioning Carbon  
port.

Cyrus

On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:59 PM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:

>>>>>> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:56:49 -0700, merlyn@stonehenge.com  
>>>>>> (Randal L. Schwartz) said:
>
> YAMAMOTO> Of course it's up to you whether to make such a plea.  But
> YAMAMOTO> keep in mind that developers' time and effort for multi-tty
> YAMAMOTO> and Unicode support on the Carbon port might be wasted if
> YAMAMOTO> the Cocoa/GNUStep port becomes good enough for Emacs 23.  I
> YAMAMOTO> don't think it's a good idea to invest them in catching up
> YAMAMOTO> with the trunk NOW.
>
> YAMAMOTO> The situation is different from that of pre-22: we have a
> YAMAMOTO> brand-new first stable release version running on the Mac
> YAMAMOTO> native window system and ordinary Mac users don't need to
> YAMAMOTO> use the CVS version, there's an alternative, and the next
> YAMAMOTO> major release does not happen too soon.
>
>> So, you're saying that there will be a non-X11 version of Emacs for
>> OSX in the works, even though it's not usable just yet?  Do you have
>> an idea of when it might be usable?
>
> I'm not saying it is not "usable".  You can try and see it yourself by
> downloading it from http://emacs-app.sourceforge.net/.  I think it's
> too early to judge if it becomes good enough for Emacs 23.
>
> 				      YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
> 				mituaharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
>
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