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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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:288636 Archived-At: Jim Porter writes: > Reading through these sections of INSTALL, I found it very easy to > assume that PGTK was a direct upgrade that would just let me "switch > between running Emacs on X, Wayland and Broadway". An > extremely-careful reader might then wonder why "--with-pgtk" isn't > enabled by default on systems with the necessary dependencies, but > that only *implies* that there are downsides to PGTK rather than > stating it. > > I think it would be best to state explicitly that there are problems > with the PGTK build, though INSTALL probably doesn't need to go into > any more detail than that. In practice, a lot of people will probably > just skim the documentation, so they might miss some of the more > subtle points unless they're very clearly called out. Sure, I won't insist if everyone else seems to agree this should be mentioned (again) in INSTALL. Feel free to install changes to that effect.