Re: Android port of Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Incorporating code in Emacs doesn't mean that we are obligated to
>> support it or keep it working, it means that we will keep it working to
>> the extent that interested users provide changes to do so.
>
> From my POV, adding a significant new port for a widely-used platform,
> without a commitment to keep that port working for the observable
> future, makes no sense whatsoever.  It's a decision to commit our
> scarce resources when we know in advance that those resources will be
> wasted on code with no future.

IIUC here you're referring to the stream of Android-specific bug reports
that will inevitably come in.  Indeed, that's a problem, since we can
expect that most of those users will tend to be "far" from
being developers.  So we'd need to make sure these bug reports can be
easily recognized.


        Stefan