Re: macOS/GCC support policy

[Alan Third]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 06:56:13PM +0900, 조성빈 wrote:
> 
> 2019. 8. 4. 오전 11:56, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 작성:
> > The basic purpose of every GNU package is to add to what the GNU
> > system can do.  Making a GNU program run on some other system is not a
> > central goal, but we encourage people to implement that if they wish.
> > 
> > It would be beneficial to make GCC support MacOS if it would lead
> > to more adoption of GCC.  Otherwise, we don't especially care.
> 
> Does that mean we can use Obj-C blocks in Emacs? (IOW, should I keep 
> developing the patch?)
> 
> > If extensions to Objective C make that language better, it would be
> > good to implement them.  GNUtep doesn't use them now, but maybe it
> > would use them if they were available.

At the very least I imagine the platform independent part should go
ahead. I’m not sure what the policy is here, it looks to me like
nobody feels very strongly about this, but I’m probably misreading the
situation.

Can Richard or Eli clarify, please?
-- 
Alan Third