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: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:28:33 +0200 Message-ID: <85mzp3a8am.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <8764vtxusp.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 1120427201 12271 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 21:46:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 21:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lute Kamstra , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 23:46:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpCIF-00080e-Al for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:46:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpCJQ-00052M-8y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:47:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpCFb-0003Wk-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpCFa-0003WP-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpCB9-0001sI-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DpC6g-0003zj-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DpByu-0003Du-N6; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:26:28 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5528B1C3DB68; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:28:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:42:58 -0400") 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:40271 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40271 "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > The changes are ok (presuming they work), but there is a problem in > the comments: > > ! ;; There is at present support for Linux and Darwin. > > Darwin is a complete operating system. Since when? AFAIK, the complete system is called MacOS. > To include "Linux" in that list implies that it too is a complete > operating system. But the communication is just with the kernel, via the proc file system. > That's unfair to the GNU Project, so we won't say do that. I can't see that naming the kernel when clearly the kernel is meant is problematic. The kernel of MacOS is Darwin. The kernel of GNU/Linux is Linux. > The current comment says "Linux" because it refers specifically to > the kernel and its version numbers. (There are no generally > meaningful version numbers for the GNU/Linux system as a whole.) Well, I don't get it. What do you want to call the MacOS kernel if not Darwin? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum