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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: akrl@sdf.org, yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: On elisp running native
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 05:34:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83woadkw1y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1P194MB0429C19FDF6C6F762DEB062596270@VI1P194MB0429.EURP194.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (message from arthur miller on Mon, 30 Dec 2019 22:03:43 +0000)

> From: arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> CC: "yandros@gmail.com" <yandros@gmail.com>, "dgutov@yandex.ru"
> 	<dgutov@yandex.ru>, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
> 	"akrl@sdf.org" <akrl@sdf.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 22:03:43 +0000
> 
> With apps that don't have native ports I ment *nix applications that are not written with portability in mind. For
> example Firefox, Apache or similar are already written to run native, while say binutils or some other typical
> posix apps, usually need extra portability layer to compile on win32. mingw/cygwin/msys usually provide
> enough of that portability layer for applications to be "relatively easily" ported over to native win32. In that
> context I don't really see what gap wsl fills. 

I'm not sure we should continue this, as it seems to be wandering
off-topic, but again, FTR, MinGW provides very little to aid porting
applications that weren't written to be portable.  A few Posix
headers, a small number of library functions, and that's about it.
The bulk of the job of porting an application to native Windows is on
the shoulders of whoever does the porting.  E.g., look at the stuff in
Emacs's w32.c: it all is needed with MinGW.

> I just wanted to express my concern for not leaving mative win32 port as a secondary citizen in favor of wsl. 

That depends on contributors to Emacs.  If they keep the native
Windows port alive, it will remain.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-31  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 210+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-28  6:54 On elisp running native Andrea Corallo
2019-11-28 11:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-28 14:07   ` Andrea Corallo
2019-11-28 12:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-28 20:15   ` Andrea Corallo
2019-11-29  6:03     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-28 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-28 17:28   ` Andrea Corallo
2019-11-28 21:06     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-28 22:52       ` Andrea Corallo
2019-11-29  0:20       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-11-29 14:59       ` Andrea Corallo
2019-11-29 15:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-29 15:30           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-01 10:34             ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-01 15:27               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-29 16:43           ` Andrea Corallo
2019-11-29 19:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-29 21:18               ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-08 20:18 ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-26 13:05   ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-26 17:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-26 18:14       ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-26 20:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-26 22:10           ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-27  9:12             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 10:46               ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-27 14:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-28  1:17               ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-28  7:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-28  8:17                 ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-29  0:08                   ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-29  9:29                     ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-28 13:07               ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-12-28 13:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-28 19:56                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-29 19:59                 ` chad
2019-12-30  8:17                   ` arthur miller
2019-12-30 14:09                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-12-30 15:25                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-30 22:03                       ` arthur miller
2019-12-31  3:34                         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-30 13:56                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-12-30 14:04                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-12-30  8:47                 ` Achim Gratz
2019-12-27 15:53             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-27 21:02               ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-27 22:19                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-28  8:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-28  8:56                   ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-28 10:06                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-28 11:57                       ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-28 13:34                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-28 14:35                           ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-28 18:38                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-28 22:13                               ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-31  9:55                               ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-31 15:49                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-24 23:21                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-25  6:14                         ` yyoncho
2020-02-25  7:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-25 12:59                             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-28  4:34                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-28  8:26                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-28  9:23                                   ` yyoncho
2020-04-26 12:00                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-27  4:41                             ` yyoncho
2019-12-26 20:26     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-26 20:58       ` dick.r.chiang
2019-12-26 21:57       ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-27  8:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 10:49           ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-28 16:10           ` dick.r.chiang
2019-12-28 17:31             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-31 10:24           ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-31 15:51             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-31 16:21               ` Andrea Corallo
2019-12-31 16:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-31 22:15                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-01-01 12:41                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-01 15:14                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-01 18:42                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-02  7:55                         ` arthur miller
2020-01-02 11:31                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-02 13:53                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 18:17                           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05  1:33                             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05  4:51                               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05  5:18                                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-05  6:36                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-02 13:47                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 18:14                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 10:00                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-02 11:47                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-02 16:52                         ` Ergus
2020-01-02 17:55                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-11 14:10                         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-04 11:28                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-04 15:30                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-04 18:39                               ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-04 18:58                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-04 19:00                                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-04 20:30                                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-05 10:15                                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-05 14:24                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-15  9:29                                         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-16 18:18                                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-02-22 10:15                                             ` On elisp running native - deferred compilation Andrea Corallo
2020-02-22 14:19                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-04 19:34                                             ` On elisp running native Andrea Corallo
2020-03-04 20:21                                               ` Michael Albinus
2020-03-04 22:16                                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-05 19:33                                                   ` Michael Albinus
2020-03-06 21:44                                                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-07  9:09                                                       ` Michael Albinus
2020-03-07  9:33                                                         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-07  9:41                                                           ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]                                                             ` <xjf36akjx8e.fsf@sdf.org>
     [not found]                                                               ` <87y2sca2ex.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]                                                                 ` <xjfy2scigxn.fsf@sdf.org>
     [not found]                                                                   ` <xjftv30hytf.fsf@sdf.org>
2020-03-07 17:57                                                                     ` Michael Albinus
2020-03-07 18:49                                                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-07 18:54                                                                         ` Michael Albinus
2020-03-07 19:19                                                                           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-08 15:03                                                                             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-08 20:16                                                                               ` Michael Albinus
2020-03-08 20:55                                                                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-08 21:09                                                                                   ` Michael Albinus
2020-03-08 21:29                                                                                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-08 21:32                                                                                       ` Michael Albinus
2020-03-08 21:37                                                                                         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-05 10:54                                               ` Adam Porter
2020-03-05 12:43                                                 ` Gong-Yi Liao 廖宮毅
2020-03-05 13:27                                                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-08 14:37                                                     ` Gong-Yi Liao 廖宮毅
2020-03-08 15:13                                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-15 19:00                                                     ` Gong-Yi Liao 廖宮毅
2020-03-15 20:00                                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-05 13:19                                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-05 14:42                                                   ` Adam Porter
2020-03-05 19:46                                                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-06 21:15                                                   ` Adam Porter
2020-03-06 21:23                                                     ` Adam Porter
2020-03-06 21:52                                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-11 22:04                                                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-12 17:10                                                   ` Adam Porter
2020-03-12 17:34                                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-12 18:03                                                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-23 21:36                                               ` On elisp running native - Update7 Andrea Corallo
2020-03-24  2:59                                                 ` Gong-Yi Liao 廖宮毅
2020-03-24  8:44                                                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-16 15:24                                                 ` On elisp running native - Update 8 Andrea Corallo
2020-05-16 16:21                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 20:44                                                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-16 18:22                                                   ` Gregor Zattler
2020-05-16 19:59                                                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-17  5:26                                                       ` Gregor Zattler
2020-06-14 13:23                                                   ` On elisp running native - Update 9 Andrea Corallo
2020-06-14 17:23                                                     ` arthur miller
2020-06-15  5:04                                                     ` Gong-Yi Liao 廖宮毅
2020-06-15  7:41                                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-17 23:54                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-18  6:55                                                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-07-16 20:00                                                     ` On elisp running native - Update 10 Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-17 18:43                                                       ` On elisp running native - Update 11 Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-18  5:13                                                         ` Arthur Miller
2020-08-18  8:17                                                           ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-26 10:35                                                         ` On elisp running native - Update 12 Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-26 14:29                                                           ` T.V Raman
2020-09-26 14:56                                                             ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-26 15:07                                                               ` T.V Raman
2020-09-28 12:22                                                                 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-09-28 14:03                                                                   ` T.V Raman
2020-09-27 10:35                                                           ` Arthur Miller
2020-09-27 18:28                                                             ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-27 18:30                                                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 20:39                                                                 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-27 22:10                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28  6:06                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 10:28                                                                   ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-28 10:45                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 11:02                                                                       ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-27 20:37                                                               ` T.V Raman
2020-09-28 14:10                                                           ` Yuan Fu
2020-09-28 14:51                                                             ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-28 15:20                                                               ` Yuan Fu
2020-09-28 15:32                                                                 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-28 15:19                                                           ` Caio Henrique
2020-09-28 15:39                                                             ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-28 16:12                                                               ` Caio Henrique
2020-09-28 17:21                                                                 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-01 18:37                                                           ` On elisp running native - Update 13 Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-01 20:07                                                             ` tomas
2020-01-01 15:19                     ` On elisp running native Óscar Fuentes
2020-01-01 18:48                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-01-01 14:59             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-15 14:21 ` Spenser Truex
2020-03-15 20:10   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-18 14:58     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-03-18 17:14       ` Andrea Corallo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-02 21:47 arthur miller
2020-03-06 13:28 Zhu Zihao
2020-03-06 17:51 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-09 17:55   ` Zhu Zihao
2020-03-09 18:52     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-09 19:14       ` Zhu Zihao
2020-03-09 19:41         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-09 21:06         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-09 19:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-09 19:42         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-05 21:48         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-10 16:15   ` Zhu Zihao
2020-03-10 17:46     ` Andrea Corallo

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