Re: Android port of Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 17/06/2023 09:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> So what bothers me is whether we as the project should take another
> such port upon ourselves, instead of leaving it to others to develop
> and maintain it outside of the upstream project.  Because if we take
> it upon ourselves, I don't see any way of making sure the Android port
> will not go the way of w32 and NS soon enough, maybe the moment we
> land it.

We shouldn't be afraid to deprecate and remove unmaintained ports. And 
we shouldn't (like Po already said) delay releases over them.

If we had a consensus on that, I guess the main concern that would 
remain is whether the Android port complicates the common code enough 
for it to be noticeable. Or, from another angle, whether removing the 
port will be a difficult operation because of having to excise those 
additions in the common code paths.

On the flip side, I suppose we should ask how many changes the Android 
port requires in the shared code at all. Because if there were none, 
maintaining the port in a separate repo, rebasing regularly (and perhaps 
automatically), would be a cake walk too.