Re: scratch/windows-98 18e7a9f3d0c: Restore functionality on Windows 98

[Po Lu]

Reposting to the list, as I selected "Reply" rather than "Follow-up" by
accident.

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I understand that you feel strongly about this and enjoy working on
>> it, but if it's true that it's easy to maintain inside of Emacs,
>> then
>> it should also be easy to maintain a FreeDOS/MS-DOS version of Emacs
>> externally, if it comes to that.
>
> Any external version (I read this as a euphemism for "fork") of Emacs
> will be denied the advantage of the existing infrastructure and
> recognition Emacs enjoys, and not only will this pall the special
> appeal of the port and impede its distribution, but also alienate the
> persons concerned with it, so that it is impossible to interpet a
> demand to separate its development from Emacs but as a deliberate
> expression of hostiliy to these developers.  If only for this reason,
> maintaining the DJGPP port externally is simply a non-starter.
>
> Not that I didn't state the practical aspects of this when the future
> of the Android port was in question.