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: File watch support in autorevert.el Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:19:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83mwwfttn8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878v819kok.fsf@gmx.de> <83fw28uj9c.fsf@gnu.org> <8338y7vkyx.fsf@gnu.org> <87libzn4qt.fsf@gmx.de> <83y5fzu3al.fsf@gnu.org> <87ehhrn1lo.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357931939 13073 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2013 19:18:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:18:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 11 20:19:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ttk8E-00060Q-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:19:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ttk7x-0004Vm-Tm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:18:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ttk7t-0004UV-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:18:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ttk7r-0004O0-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:42450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ttk7q-0004Np-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MGH00B006HKT500@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:18:45 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MGH00BCC6Z9M180@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:18:45 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ehhrn1lo.fsf@gmx.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156235 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:09:07 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Hmm, as said already I have almost no chance to test it under Windows ... > >> I would let this implementation to somebody else. > > > > So now we will have features which, although equivalent, are only > > implemented on the platform of the implementer's choice? If so, what > > good is it to have the same feature implemented on different > > platforms? > > It's not "my choice". I simply don't use MS Windows, and so I cannot do > anything for MS Windows but adding code w/o any test. If we have a single API that hides the OS dependencies, you will not need to write 2 versions of the same code, but just one. Testing that on platforms that you don't use will then be up to the users of those platforms, like always in Emacs.