From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows 9X compatibility (was: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:17:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k4swgbjy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAE867D.3030404@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:28:13 -0600
> From: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
>
> On 3/27/2010 10:55 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > How is this not a concern anymore? We didn't stop supporting
> > Windows 9X, did we?
> >
> Microsoft did. Why don't we?
Last time we checked, the majority of machines in the 3rd world used
Windows 9X. The GNU Project doesn't want to be unfriendly to computer
users in those countries. Maybe things have changed, but someone will
need to show figures, and ask FSF to reconsider.
> Are there plans on dropping support for these ancient OSs instead of
> kludging backwards compatibility into the system?
What ``kludging backwards compatibility''? All we do is load some
libraries dynamically instead of linking against them statically. The
rest of back-compatible code was written years ago and needs zero
maintenance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-28 7:17 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
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 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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