Re: Android port of Emacs

[Po Lu]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Well, I'm not sure whether or not I count as a frequent contributor, but
> I'll answer anyway.
>
> I think you're right to be a bit concerned - how many people in Emacs
> have even the slightest hacking experience on Android?  I think an answer
> of one would be concerning, but it seems not unlikely to be the case.

Well, you saw at least one other individual in this thread.

> If it would be practicable firstly to try out Android support separate
> from the Emacs code, and then move it in the event of a positive
> experience I would suggest that.  But that would cost at least as much
> extra effort as simply having it separate.

We have already had two months to try it out in the feature branch, on
top of the four months it took to develop it.