bug#43269: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] provide a user feedback on Emacs being native compiled

[Andrea Corallo]

Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:
>>
>>> That said honestly I've not much idea on how to rework `about-emacs' and
>>> my understanding was that this is a general suggestion not strictly
>>> native-comp related.  If that's the case I'd be for closing this bug as
>>> I think is out of scope for the feature branch, or if I'm wrong here and
>>> there's some suggestion I'm happy to put some effort into as well :)
>>
>> The line that says
>>
>> GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 85, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.23, 
>> cairo version 1.16.0)
>>  of 2020-10-17
>>
>> (which should perhaps be folded better) could have a ", natively
>> compiled" in there somewhere.
>>
>> I think nativecomp is a big enough thing to be called out here -- at
>> least for a couple of Emacs versions.
>
> This was my original proposition but IIRC Eli had a different idea on
> that.
>
> Unfortunatelly I think the discussion happend on a different thread and
> I cannot find it ATM so I may be wrong.

I've found the original discussion, I link it here for completeness

<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2020-09/msg00690.html>

Sorry for this threads being a little messy :/

  Andrea