Re: Support text-shadow on for Emacs face

[stardiviner]

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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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>   > I can contact the author of this patch, he doesn't have progress
>   > on supporting Linux. I'm thinking whether Emacs-dev team can
>   > implement this feature by own design.
>
> If someone wants to implement this for GNU/Linux, that would be good,
> and then we could install the MacOS code for the same feature.  But I
> can't implore people to write that so we could install the code for
> MacOS.  MacOS support is a secondary matter.
>
>    Or maybe considering merge this macOS support patch at first
>
> That would be taking an unwise risk.  What if we installed that MacOS
> feature, and months went by and no one wrote a similar feature for
> GNU/Linux?  We would be in a bad situation, doing what we shouldn't.
>
> We could delete that MacOS code at that point.  But that is asking
> for trouble.  It is wiser to avoid getting into that situation.
>
> That is why our policy is not to install features that work only on a
> non-GNU platform.  See the node System Portability in the GNU Coding
> Standards, https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/.

Sound reasonable, I leaved a message to the author of that macOS patch. Hope he
can take time to implement it.

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