From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el. Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:16:31 +0200 Message-ID: <85d5q1grw0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <8764vtxusp.fsf@xs4all.nl> <85psu1gvx7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87vf3tuvjw.fsf@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120318404 13000 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2005 15:33:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 15:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 02 17:33:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DojzQ-0000jw-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:33:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dok0X-0001uG-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:34:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DojuG-0007za-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Doju1-0007tq-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:27:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Doju0-0007nn-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dojoi-0006OK-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DojhS-0000uT-Lk; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:14:34 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 6472D1C3DB68; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:16:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lute Kamstra In-Reply-To: <87vf3tuvjw.fsf@xs4all.nl> (Lute Kamstra's message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2005 16:33:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:40123 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40123 Lute Kamstra writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > The systems that are affected by this change are those whose > `system-type' is equal to darwin (and that have the "pmset" program > available). What changes for the users of those systems is that > they will be able to use display-battery-mode when they choose to do > so. (That mode just didn't do anything for them previously.) > display-battery-mode is not enabled by default. > > I don't use Darwin so I couldn't really test the code myself. > Samuel Lauber was so kind to do that for me. I think there are > quite some people with laptops running OS X and using CVS Emacs. So > I guess that the code will get some decent testing when it is > committed now. It would appear that the worst thing that could happen is that display-battery-mode fails to work on platforms on which it did not work previously. Personally, I would not regard this as release-critical as long as you make sure that it really is just darwin that is affected. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum