From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:21:32 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200212021921.gB2JLWm03422@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <7263-Wed27Nov2002204304+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200212021613.gB2GDxs02206@rum.cs.yale.edu> <9003-Mon02Dec2002211831+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038856877 7495 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 19:21:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 19:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, jbuehler@hekimian.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Iw84-0001wi-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 20:21:16 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18IwHC-0000YH-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 20:30:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Iw8s-0004ZZ-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Iw8U-0003uf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:21:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Iw8O-0003rk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:21:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Iw8O-0003rH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:21:36 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gB2JLWm03422; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:21:32 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9809 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9809 > > From: "Stefan Monnier" > > 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