Re: set-frame-parameter a child-frame's 'parent-frame error on macOS ?

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:12:10 +0100
>> 
>> >> Strongly recommended for emacs-26.
>> >
>> > Why strongly?  This problem is quite old, isn't it?
>> 
>> Because we've been dragging our heels on fixing HiDPI issues for ages,
>> and if we don't fix the ones we know about for emacs-26 we'll have
>> another multi-year wait (and HiDPI displays are becoming more and more
>> common).
>
> OTOH, if we continue installing non-trivial patches on the release
> branch, we will not release Emacs 26.1 any time soon.  Which one is
> worse?

These two patches are not utterly trivial, but they're hardly complex
either (and they fix real bugs).

> We must draw the line somewhere, but where is that?

In my opinion, the other side of these two fixes. Opinions will vary.
[1]

Robert

Footnotes: 
[1]  Biased in favour of my own patches? Me!?