Re: Merging the pgtk branch

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: masm+emacs@masm11.me,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 21:01:29 +0800
>> 
>> BTW, shouldn't we put an error message somewhere in configure.ac telling
>> people that the branch is now on master and that the feature branch is
>> obsolete?
>
> I'm not sure it's worth the hassle.
>
>> Lots of people are tracking `feature/pgtk' right now, and I don't want a
>> repeat of the "people are using feature/native-comp after it was merged
>> to master" situation we had earlier.
>
> Messages shown by configure are mostly ignored -- people go for a
> coffee while Emacs builds.

Which is why I think it should be an error.  At least it would serve to
immediately notify the people building prebuilt packages for common GNU
distributions that they should start tracking master instead.

Thanks.