From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .info files
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 12:16:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA42AF0.2020304@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8362cc70la.fsf@gnu.org>
On 05/04/2012 02:32 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I still don't understand why this should bother anyone except
> myself.
Not two hours ago I was impeded in Emacs development by
the MS-DOS support. The problem in this case was that
MS-DOS 8.3 file name limits do not allow two different files named
"gnulib-common.m4" and "gnulib-comp.m4", and this causes a
wrinkle in our mainstream build procedures. In merging
some of my old patches this wrinkle caused a build to fail,
which took some time to figure out.
That's just one example, of course, but there are others.
The point is that the hassle of supporting MS-DOS does
impede other Emacs developers, and this cost needs to be
weighed against the benefit of supporting MS-DOS.
I agree with Glenn that the 24.1 release announcement
would be a good time to take stock of the need to support
Emacs on older platforms.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-04 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-12 14:38 .info files Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-04-12 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-12 16:49 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-04-12 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-12 21:58 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-04-13 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-19 10:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-05-04 6:53 ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-04 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 19:16 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2012-05-04 20:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 21:33 ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-04 23:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-05-05 0:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-06 1:24 ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-06 2:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-05 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-05 11:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-05-05 20:14 ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-06 2:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-08 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-08 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-17 13:34 ` Nix
2012-04-13 19:19 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-13 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-13 21:19 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14 8:04 ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-14 9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14 10:14 ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-14 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14 18:01 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-16 17:44 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-16 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-16 20:26 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-16 20:33 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 17:56 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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