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: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:27:06 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2cfghnp.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> <831sypjmst.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpggip8j.fsf@gnu.org> <05ba947a-970a-178c-8036-bcdf84485384@cs.ucla.edu> <83zilbgo4u.fsf@gnu.org> <20161107140228.0a60be57@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161107150232.0b10d24f@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161107152228.61e18b30@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478550487 27322 195.159.176.226 (7 Nov 2016 20:28:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:28:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 21:28:03 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 1c3qW5-0004Ie-C7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:27:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56413 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qW8-0001h0-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:27:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qVM-0001Vl-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:26:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qVH-000817-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:26:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42141) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qVH-000810-Fp; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:26:51 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2484 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qVE-0005Zc-3X; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:26:50 -0500 In-reply-to: <20161107152228.61e18b30@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) 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:209267 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:22:28 -0500 > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I think deliberately breaking it seems like it would be antisocial, > but going through substantial trouble (that is, say, holding back > some sort of improved functionality) to make sure it keeps working > also seems unreasonable. We never do the latter. If some functionality cannot work on old Windows systems, there's a runtime test which disables the feature on those systems, with some suitable return value or error message. This has been the Emacs practice for years.