Re: Deferring native compilation finalization until idle

On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 10:01 AM Perry Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I'd prefer to wait and see how widespread is the problem, even on
> > macOS, before we burden everyone (including the maintainers) with this
> > complication.
>
> So as far as I can tell, it affects everyone on macOS that has native
> compilation enabled and isn't using a customs distribution such as
> jimeh's macOS builds. To me, I'd call that widespread but I am of
> course biased :).
>

David Caldwell's very popular builds here https://emacsformacosx.com/ also
disable library validation.  I think the Homebrew emacs-plus builds do not
disable library validation or at least a first glance at
https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus said no.  The renovated
emacs-mac distribution here
https://github.com/jdtsmith/emacs-mac/blob/189247cbd6c5023163300db8a1678586ccbf973b/devel_update_notes.org?plain=1#L140
also
discusses disabling library validation.

I think any assessment that suggests a high density of macOS users being
exposed to the macOS default needs to account for pre-built distributions
people frequently choose.  Two of the three pre-builts disable
library validation.  It would not surprise me if Boris offers an option to
do the same for the Homebrew build if people complain.