Re: Mac OS-compatible ports

[Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
> Hello.
>
>
> 1 jan 2012 kl. 07:26 skrev Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>:
>
>> On 2011-12-31 21:22 +0800, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>>> I agree with your statement, but we're not "pushing" the NS port only
>>> because it's for GNUstep.  It's quite usable on Mac OS X.
>>
>> I wonder how you reach that conclusion. If you don't use Emacs heavily
>> on a Mac, then you don't know if it is quite usable. My experience is
>> that it is not.
>
> YMMV. I use Emacs every day on OSX and it is no different from
> using Emacs on X in my experience. But I don't use Gnus or other
> packages that people seems to have problems with.

Same here, except I may not miss the intl font support the Mac port
is supposed to have as an advantage.

I do need features from bzr trunk, so there's no option for me to
try the Mac port.

There may be memory leaks, but there are enough potential leaks
common to emacs regardless of ports (also seen with X on Linux).
Emacs on Linux configured as
/configure --without-selinux --without-tiff \
    --without-sound --without-dbus --without-gconf \
    --without-gsettings --without-xft --without-gsettings \
    --with-x-toolkit=no --without-gnutls
Actually I might even disable GIF, JPEG, and PNG support
as nyan-mode works in text-represenation, too, and I don't
require more than 7-bit ASCII.