Re: Support for MS-Windows build of Emacs

[Po Lu]

Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:

> My impression is that the statement above also applies to the NS-port.

That is correct, and is reflected in the condition of the NS port.

>> This is not an April 1 joke: if there's a significant community
>> interested in being able to run and develop Emacs on MS-Windows,
>> someone should volunteer to take care of the build on a day to day
>> basis, or else the conclusion is that there's no general interest in
>> that platform among the Emacs community that is high enough to justify
>> the investment.
>
> I think there is a demand for Emacs on non-free systems, notably Windows
> and macOS, so dropping the support isn't helpful.  But as you said, it
> becomes a dead end if the official maintainers don't have the time
> and/or willingness etc. to do the job there and no one else steps
> forward.

So let's hope that interested parties, having received this fair
warning, make their presence known.