From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interest in nt_load_image? Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:32:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83imil3d8r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86369r0xcv.fsf@csic.es> <83k1324m60.fsf@gnu.org> <86imimwa4t.fsf@csic.es> <838sji3qhx.fsf@gnu.org> <86lfnhsyei.fsf@csic.es> <83v9ml3kpx.fsf@gnu.org> <86r1x9rf7w.fsf@csic.es> <83pnct3ikf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="53973"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 20:33:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzDt-000Dys-O2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:33:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54784 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzDs-00074Q-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:33:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzCr-0005jN-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:32:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzCq-0002Mk-BQ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4745 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzCl-0002pO-0d; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:32:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:16:13 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:246050 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Juan José García-Ripoll > , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:16:13 -0400 > > Since then, I've seen mentions of Windows-98 support but only in the > context of "blind" efforts to try and make sure it can still work on > Windows-98. That's exactly what we are trying to do, and cannot (and shouldn't) try doing more. > Maybe we should try and use this Windows-98-incompatible feature and see > if someone hollers, as a way to test whether we do still have users > running such systems. I don't see the point. We have enough real issues to worry about, let's not waste precious resources on trying to figure out whether the 9X code can be dropped. One day it will die of natural causes, no need to invest even a minimal effort in that.