Re: Emacs Mac port

[Charles A. Roelli]

> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:57:14 +0000
> From: Alan Third <address@hidden>
> 
> I don’t know the Mac port code base very well, so apologies in advance
> if I accidentally slander it, but I think the NS port has the
> potential to be a leaner, simpler port than the Mac port. To get there
> it needs a lot of refactoring, and ideally it would drop support for
> GNUstep, and possibly some older macOS versions. I’m finding it
> increasingly difficult to maintain backwards compatibility,
> particularly with things like fullscreen.

I hope we can do at least one more release (Emacs 27) that supports
older macOS versions, since recent improvements (like your native
image scaling) work well on these versions.  We could then drop
support for the older macOS versions in Emacs 28.