Re: Android port of Emacs

[Po Lu]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> If I understand correctly, this means that you can't start Emacs from
> Termux, but a specially-built Emacs could be launched as any other
> Android app and then it could invoke Termux applications. Isn't the
> "installed alongside Termux" part a bit complicated? I mean, if it is
> not possible for Termux to build, package and install your port
> alongside their other packages, how the user could do that?

By configuring Emacs with:

  ./configure --with-shared-user-id=com.termux

I think.  Or perhaps org.termux?

> How is that different from Termux themselves building and distributing
> your port?

Termux only packages command-line applications, while programs using GUI
features can only be started by the system itself.

HTH.

> OTOH, I know from experience that creating, hosting and maintaining a
> software distribution (and that would be what you are describing, IIUC)
> is quite a lot of work, even when the number of packages is small-ish
> (about 50-100 in my case, counting dependencies.) So having a
> "hands-off" method for installing Emacs along with other software
> packages is crucial for gaining a broad adoption.

Well, if it helps, I'll see if I can scrape together some machines to
distribute packages built this way.