From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Support for MS-Windows build of Emacs
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:38:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y15pvh0m.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2msm5lonr.fsf@macmutant.fritz.box> (Arash Esbati's message of "Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:03:04 +0200")
Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:
> My impression is that the statement above also applies to the NS-port.
That is correct, and is reflected in the condition of the NS port.
>> This is not an April 1 joke: if there's a significant community
>> interested in being able to run and develop Emacs on MS-Windows,
>> someone should volunteer to take care of the build on a day to day
>> basis, or else the conclusion is that there's no general interest in
>> that platform among the Emacs community that is high enough to justify
>> the investment.
>
> I think there is a demand for Emacs on non-free systems, notably Windows
> and macOS, so dropping the support isn't helpful. But as you said, it
> becomes a dead end if the official maintainers don't have the time
> and/or willingness etc. to do the job there and no one else steps
> forward.
So let's hope that interested parties, having received this fair
warning, make their presence known.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-25 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-24 20:16 Warnings during building the current master on Win10 with MSYS2/MinGW64 Arash Esbati
2024-07-25 5:52 ` Support for MS-Windows build of Emacs (was: Warnings during building the current master on Win10 with MSYS2/MinGW64) Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-25 11:03 ` Support for MS-Windows build of Emacs Arash Esbati
2024-07-25 11:38 ` Po Lu [this message]
2024-07-28 2:58 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-30 14:30 ` Arash Esbati
2024-07-30 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-30 16:34 ` Juergen Fenn
2024-07-29 14:13 ` Support for MS-Windows build of Emacs (was: Warnings during building the current master on Win10 with MSYS2/MinGW64) Tom Davey
2024-07-25 5:56 ` Warnings during building the current master on Win10 with MSYS2/MinGW64 Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-25 6:49 ` Collin Funk
2024-07-25 11:11 ` Arash Esbati
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