From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:38:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bpe4zy13.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6h9rsuc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:57:31 +0900
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Richard Stallman writes:
>
> > However, it is not a high priority for us, because supporting any
> > version of Windows is not a high priority for us. We have no
> > commitment to support Windows 9, or Windows 7, or any version of
> > Windows. People work on this if they want to do it, and they can
> > choose which platforms to support.
>
> The point is that some developers find the very need to make the
> choice (eg, having to parse #ifdefs that refer to Windows-related
> code) annoying
I fail to see how these #ifdefs should be more annoying than similar
ones for Posix systems. And the issue in this thread was not about
dropping Windows support altogether, only about supporting older
Windows systems, which contribute no #ifdefs whatsoever.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-26 15:22 MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 15:48 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-26 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 18:05 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-26 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 18:17 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-26 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 21:14 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-27 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 10:09 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-27 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 13:56 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-27 0:48 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-27 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 16:49 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-27 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 22:28 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 0:12 ` Florian Beck
2010-03-28 0:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-28 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 18:55 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-28 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 23:23 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-29 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-31 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-03-31 10:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 15:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 16:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 17:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 17:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 18:05 ` OT: (was: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process) Stefan Monnier
2010-03-31 15:28 ` MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 16:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 18:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-06 7:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-04-07 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-07 7:59 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-28 0:39 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 7:21 ` Windows 9X compatibility Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 14:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-28 15:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-28 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 16:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-28 18:03 ` joakim
2010-03-29 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-28 19:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-28 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 22:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-28 19:27 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 21:04 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 7:17 ` Windows 9X compatibility (was: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process) Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 7:33 ` MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Jason Rumney
2010-03-28 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-28 9:11 ` Serious performance problem with process output on Mac OSX Christian Lynbech
2010-03-28 14:41 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-29 21:58 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-29 23:26 ` David Reitter
2010-03-29 23:54 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-30 7:43 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-30 13:05 ` David Reitter
2010-03-30 17:39 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2010-03-30 17:47 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-31 2:38 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2010-03-31 4:00 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-31 13:41 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2010-03-31 14:28 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-31 14:29 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-29 23:48 ` MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Davis Herring
2010-03-30 5:41 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-26 23:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-27 0:51 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-03-27 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 13:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-27 13:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-28 17:29 ` Kim F. Storm
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