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Re: Status uf NS port?


From: Alan Third
Subject: Re: Status uf NS port?
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 22:18:57 +0100

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 01:03:23PM -0400, chad wrote:
> (I bcc'd Alan; apologies if the intrusion is unwelcome, and thanks again
> for all the work you have done already.)
> 
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 1:43 PM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > Since we have upgraded EMBA to Debian bullseye, the NS port tests
> > fail. See bug#62210.
> >
> > Alan Third, who has worked on this in the past, has stopped his
> > activities. Is there somebody else who cares now?
> >
> 
> Since a couple days have passed...
> 
> I no longer have a macOS machine (not one where I can reasonably try out
> OpenStep regularly), but there seem to be a lot of macOS+ns-port users out
> there, especially on the emacs subreddit. If someone could point to/put
> together a description of what's involved, I (or someone else) could post
> to that subreddit and try to recruit someone who's in a good position to
> help.

I never managed to work out how to build against gnustep with GCC.
Clang worked absolutely fine.

FWIW, gnustep != macOS. Gnustep has very few users, and in all the
years the gnustep port of Emacs was entirely broken we didn't receive
a single bug report about it. Except maybe from Martin, but he was
only using it as a test bed.
-- 
Alan Third



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