From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MSDOS support Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:41:56 -0700 Message-ID: <200807311441.m6VEfuaH017389@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <200807310717.m6V7HvQk016586@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <878wvi1740.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217515378 31792 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2008 14:42:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:42:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 16:43:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KOZNS-0002JB-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:43:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOZMY-0006R8-An for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:42:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOZMD-00065V-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOZMC-00063j-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52123 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOZMB-00063X-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]:57086) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOZMB-0000wR-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:42:19 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1218120120.53005@/TbZb2PbW3nJkpx4dj0glw Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m6VEfuaH017389; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:41:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878wvi1740.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:51 -0400") Original-Lines: 24 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101798 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > > Emacs running on MSDOS was probably a technical wonder (Eli and all > > other people that made it possible deserve kudos for this excellent > > work), and probably it was very important at the time. But at this time > > supporting this platform does not seem useful anymore. > > > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to remove the MSDOS support? > > We've already decided to honor Eli's request to keep it. Can you please point me to where this decision was made? The only public decision was to allow me to remove MSDOS, and I didn't do it because Eli requested it and there were 100 other old things to remove at the time and give it a bit more time for users to show up. So AFAICT the decision to remove it still stands. 9 months later no users have requested the platform to be fixed, nor was it fixed. > Also, the time has passed for making such changes. That's a different story, we'll talk in the next release cycle.