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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MSDOS support
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wvi1740.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807310717.m6V7HvQk016586@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:17:57 -0700")

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

> Emacs running on MSDOS was probably a technical wonder (Eli and all
> other people that made it possible deserve kudos for this excellent
> work), and probably it was very important at the time.  But at this time
> supporting this platform does not seem useful anymore.
>
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to remove the MSDOS support?

We've already decided to honor Eli's request to keep it.  Also, the time
has passed for making such changes.

Thanks for doing the cleanup that you've done so far.  The rest will
have to wait for the next development cycle.  Please concentrate on
fixing bugs now.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31  7:17 MSDOS support Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-31 12:16 ` David Robinow
2008-07-31 18:22   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01  7:10   ` Yavor Doganov
2008-08-01  9:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01  9:58       ` Yavor Doganov
2008-07-31 14:05 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-07-31 14:41   ` Dan Nicolaescu

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