From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Refactor window-system configuration
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:08:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFCF30B.10006@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yxqhb0j6ks7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On 12/29/11 3:05 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>> We don't have a working solution. We have a mess, and we're trying to
>> clean it up. Sure, we don't have header constants right now, but we
>> don't have any pure-dispatch headers either.
>>
>> I suppose we disagree on what counts as a wrinkle. In my mind, it's
>> simpler for config.h to just tell code what header to include than to
>> create (and maintain) a header file that consists solely of ifdefs and
>> more includes.
>
> There's a lot more emacs contributors that are fluent in C than
> contributors fluent with autoconf. Why not cater to the majority?
To add a new window system to Emacs, one has to be proficient in both
autoconf and C. Does anyone else want to chime in here?
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-29 14:03 [PATCH 0/4] Support Win32 GUI in Cygwin Emacs Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 14:03 ` [PATCH 3/4] Implement cygw32 Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-29 17:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-29 21:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 0:56 ` Jason Rumney
2011-12-30 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 9:36 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 9:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-29 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/4] Refactor window-system configuration Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 22:21 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-12-29 22:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 22:43 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-12-29 22:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 23:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-12-29 23:08 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2011-12-30 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 9:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 0:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-30 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 8:26 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 9:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 9:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 11:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-30 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-29 14:03 ` [PATCH 4/4] Fix emacsclient to work with cygw32 Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 16:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-29 16:36 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 16:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-29 16:47 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 16:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-29 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-29 17:56 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-29 18:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-29 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] Compilation cleanups Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-31 14:50 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-31 20:29 ` Paul Eggert
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