From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows 9X compatibility Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:21:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83iq8ggbcp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83634jglab.fsf@gnu.org> <831vf7ge57.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6hfeyzw.fsf@gnu.org> <83vdcig87f.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4sywpvv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83tys2fbxs.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbo1iubm.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <83ljddg0w9.fsf@gnu.org> <4BAE867D.3030404@gmail.com> <4BAE9ED4.6070900@t-online.de> <4BAEA525.20709@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269761145 29769 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2010 07:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:25:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 09:25:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvmsN-0004Mh-05 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:25:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvmsL-0002qi-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvmpC-00022v-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:22:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56330 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvmpA-00022X-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:22:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvmp9-0007Ez-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:50910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvmp8-0007Eo-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZZ00100DN0VG00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:21:37 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.176.135]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZZ00KA3DS0YFF0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:21:37 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4BAEA525.20709@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122784 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:39:01 -0600 > From: Christoph > > The need is in my opinion a growing pain in the rear-end to support this > backwards compatibility. This argument can only be persuasive if it comes from someone who personally experienced this pain, which could only be true if they are active maintainers of the MS-Windows port.