Re: Android port of Emacs

[Po Lu]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

> But yeah, as in a previous message of Eli, there are jobs that have to
> be done.  E.g., what happens if this port delays a release in some
> manner (Po Lu not having the time to address the issue, or it is
> complicated, whatever)?  
>
> Does that delay the whole release of Emacs, is it addressed in a bug
> fix release ... Maybe there could be made some rules about what
> happens if the port (or any port) starts lagging behind.

As with any proprietary system, we simply release Emacs with that port
broken.  It's no big deal: most of the 19.xx series was released with
VMS support broken, and only recently was 27.1 through 28.1 released
with a nonfunctional MS-DOS port.

But that is not likely to happen in the first place.