From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making --with-wide-int the default Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:38:37 +0100 Message-ID: <22087.29085.814201.779385@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <5610ED13.1010406@dancol.org> <56117F37.9060808@dancol.org> <83oag087gs.fsf@gnu.org> <83oafz70im.fsf@gnu.org> <5620AF43.4050401@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2qn6xfm.fsf@gnu.org> <5620B4FA.1000804@cs.ucla.edu> <83wptojs1r.fsf@gnu.org> <56444C66.8050506@gmx.at> <83r3jugx8g.fsf@gnu.org> <87io56nu0a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lha1dl87.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447580494 9192 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2015 09:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 09:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, jwiegley@gmail.com, dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 15 10:41:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxtoK-0000TB-JJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 10:41:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxtoJ-00020M-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 04:41:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxemv-0007Re-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:38:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxemu-0004kt-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:57355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxemp-0004hq-DW; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:38:51 -0500 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id tAEHccDt000901; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:38:38 +0100 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id tAEHccTF020170; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:38:38 +0100 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id tAEHcbrI020166; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:38:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83lha1dl87.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194483 Archived-At: >>>>> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Faced with such powerful opposition, I guess this now becomes your > decision, John. I can always build my own Emacs with that option; the > question is what we want for the majority of our users on 32-bit > systems. In case you want any feedback from distros, Gentoo makes the option available to users as the "wide-int" use flag, and the default is off. I've not seen a single complaint from users that we should change that default. (So most likely the Gentoo default will stay off, regardless of what you decide to do with the upstream default.) Ulrich