From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Refactor window-system configuration Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:08:59 -0800 Message-ID: <4EFCF30B.10006@dancol.org> References: <4b98eec4a5f68bfcd9233d5e7444de05873225b4.1325166472.git.dancol@dancol.org> <4EFCE9C4.8050908@dancol.org> <4EFCEE59.7030605@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig175CD47D80A533BF534F95E4" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325200154 24726 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2011 23:09:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:09:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 30 00:09:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RgP5x-00032h-4w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:09:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35218 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgP5w-000600-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58601) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgP5t-0005zh-ER for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:09:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgP5s-0002PD-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:09:05 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([96.126.100.184]:34747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgP5q-0002Op-Q3; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:09:02 -0500 Original-Received: from c-24-18-179-193.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([24.18.179.193] helo=edith.local) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RgP5q-0008P6-6y; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:09:02 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 96.126.100.184 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:147021 Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig175CD47D80A533BF534F95E4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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? --------------enig175CD47D80A533BF534F95E4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAk788wwACgkQ17c2LVA10VtwJgCfVD2F2M6Zipbu43dkkfYPplVu SkEAoMC0C3GEmJasAz1Oem3U5yCNjqrO =lCvV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig175CD47D80A533BF534F95E4--