From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, jbuehler@hekimian.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:21:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212021921.gB2JLWm03422@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9003-Mon02Dec2002211831+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il
> > From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
> > Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:13:59 -0500
> >
> > > I think Someone(tm) should also go through all the *.el files, look
> > > for code that's specific to system-type windows-nt, and see which ones
> > > should also work for system-type cygwin.
> >
> > I agree, but I think this is orthogonal: we can first install his patch
> > and then try and slowly merge the applicable parts of the NT and the
> > DOS code into the cygwin path.
>
> I don't disagree, but I do think that without sorting out
> DOZe-specific code like I suggested, the Cygwin port might have some
> subtle bugs and misfeatures. So it can only be viewed as work in
> progress, not something we could in good faith offer to users at
> large.
Yes, of course: we should only merge it in if we can be sure that there
will be someone maintaining and improving that version of the code.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-02 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <amvm2v$l11$1@main.gmane.org>
2002-11-27 17:43 ` [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Eli Zaretskii
2002-11-28 8:01 ` Roman Belenov
2002-11-28 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-11-29 5:57 ` Roman Belenov
2002-12-02 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-12-02 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-02 19:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-12-02 20:36 ` Jason Rumney
2002-12-03 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-03 14:17 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-03 14:14 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-03 16:37 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-03 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-03 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-04 7:39 ` Roman Belenov
2002-12-03 23:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-12-04 11:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-04 11:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-04 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-04 18:39 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-05 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-06 13:31 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-07 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <E18LD00-0004Ov-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2002-12-09 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-09 14:57 ` Joe Buehler
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