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Re: PGTK-related misconceptions


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: PGTK-related misconceptions
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 09:02:09 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> Reading through these sections of INSTALL, I found it very easy to
> assume that PGTK was a direct upgrade that would just let me "switch
> between running Emacs on X, Wayland and Broadway". An
> extremely-careful reader might then wonder why "--with-pgtk" isn't
> enabled by default on systems with the necessary dependencies, but
> that only *implies* that there are downsides to PGTK rather than
> stating it.
>
> I think it would be best to state explicitly that there are problems
> with the PGTK build, though INSTALL probably doesn't need to go into
> any more detail than that. In practice, a lot of people will probably
> just skim the documentation, so they might miss some of the more
> subtle points unless they're very clearly called out.

Sure, I won't insist if everyone else seems to agree this should be
mentioned (again) in INSTALL.

Feel free to install changes to that effect.



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