From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64?
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:22:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161107152228.61e18b30@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbmxrrr2k.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org>
On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:10:57 -0500 Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Sure, but there's very little evidence that many of those are
> > extant.
>
> Five years ago, I would have wholeheartedly agreed with you. And
> yet, at that point, some user complained about something that broke
> under Windows98 and in their context it was still in wide use and
> they went through a fair bit of trouble helping us debug this
> use-case until it worked again.
>
> So my gut feeling still agrees with yours, but I wouldn't
> necessarily trust it.
I think deliberately breaking it seems like it would be antisocial,
but going through substantial trouble (that is, say, holding back
some sort of improved functionality) to make sure it keeps working
also seems unreasonable.
Perry
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2016-11-05 8:16 ` Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-05 22:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 8:10 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 16:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 17:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 18:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 20:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-07 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:16 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-06 18:50 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-07 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 21:54 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 21:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 14:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 15:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:52 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 16:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-10 15:19 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 7:00 ` martin rudalics
2016-11-15 10:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 16:34 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-07 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 21:54 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:22 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2016-11-07 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-08 3:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-11-08 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 18:49 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-08 13:55 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-06 21:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 4:13 ` Noam Postavsky
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