Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Di., 3. Okt. 2017 um 18:37 Uhr:
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:22:56 +0000
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, 28630@debbugs.gnu.org, tom@tromey.com,
> agrambot@gmail.com
>
> > Since no released version of Emacs has thread support, I'm not surprised that they aren't widely used
> yet.
>
> Well, I am, because Reddit, for example, is full of people who say
> they use Emacs 26.
>
> I guess there's a huge selection bias at play. Most users typically use whatever version their OS distributor
> provides, and that's often not even Emacs 25. Libraries tend to support 24.x as well, and therefore can't use
> threads until they drop compatibility with both 24.x and 25.x.
We are talking about developers, not users. And newer versions can be
supported by using the relevant version-comparison stuff.
Sure, but it's already a lot of work to use threads unconditionally, and they are a feature that can't be easily polyfilled. So I can understand that library developers are hesitant.