From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mention darwin as a possible value for system-type? Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:12:37 +0200 Message-ID: <01c5104c$Blat.v2.4$449065c0@zahav.net.il> References: <002101c50e75$33ee87c0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c50ed6$Blat.v2.4$5fc89be0@zahav.net.il> <16906.29014.782630.361708@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <01c50f2c$Blat.v2.4$1e6a7c80@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108137553 1115 80.91.229.6 (11 Feb 2005 15:59:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 11 16:59:04 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CzdCC-0007Mn-00 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:59:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzdRA-0003cp-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:14:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzdQT-0003UO-Qa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:13:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzdQR-0003Tf-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:13:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzdIs-00018w-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:05:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CzcaD-0005F5-Ng; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:19:50 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (tony04-57-217.inter.net.il [80.230.57.217]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id ANG10056 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:19:44 +0200 (IST) Original-To: David Kastrup X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:10:54 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33260 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33260 > Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:10:54 +0100 > > > If `darwin' is the value on some supported system, its omission > > cannot be deliberate, I think. > > Secondguessing will get us nowhere: by that we just cement possible > oversights permanently. Policy by accident, "somebody might have > thought something when doing that", is a recipe for disaster in the > long run. > > AFAICS, Darwin is free software (while MacOSX isn't). So even if we > try to be semi-"politically correct" by deliberately making using > unfree software more complicated with buggy documentation, more likely > window-system rather than system-type should be affected. Once again David Kastrup pounces on someone guided by nothing else but his own misunderstandings: all I meant to say was that the omission of `darwin' is a bug that should be fixed.