From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 05:43:14 +0200 Message-ID: <831sypjmst.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> <87mvhgsf21.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8360o4monq.fsf@gnu.org> <87vaw4gq0j.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83oa1vlnkk.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1iba6od.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ins2jq88.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg2p8swx.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478403844 29997 195.159.176.226 (6 Nov 2016 03:44:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 03:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 04:43:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3EMu-0004h5-A4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2016 04:43:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36549 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3EMx-0003Rw-6z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3EM8-0003R6-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3EM5-0005EL-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3EM4-0005EC-TJ; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4414 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c3EM4-0008K1-5U; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:42:48 -0400 In-reply-to: <87eg2p8swx.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209204 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 22:26:38 +0000 > > Incidentally, M-q seems to remove the double space. Not in "emacs -Q", so it's something with your customizations. > > Also, please don't remove information about Windows 9X, as the 32-bit > > MS-Windows build of Emacs still supports that. > > I would argue against this. I removed the material on Windows 9x since > it has long since reached EOL -- 10 years, or 25% of Emacs' existance. That is true, but we still try supporting those old systems, as they are widespread in the 3rd world. We have code whose only purpose is to continue that support. We don' take MS EOL decisions as important. > While providing this information somewhere might be useful, having it in > this readme mostly serves to make the readme and to some extent Emacs > appear unmaintained. I don't see why a document that mentions the latest version of Emacs could appear unmaintained. If you'd like we could mention the date of last update in the file. > In addition, it also makes the documentation longer which adds to > the impression that Emacs is hard to use. One short paragraph is not a significant addition, IMO. > I'd be happy to look for somewhere else to put this information, if you > think it need to be retained. There's no other good place. This is the file where users should look for preliminaries for Emacs installation. Thanks.