From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:55:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpe85la1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hbo0gb5j.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:26:00 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > Hardware. Windows 9X is the main choice for old machines (like 64MB
>> > ram). Don't take that away without need.
>>
>> If they run a 15 year old trashy OS, do they really demand the latest
>> and greatest Emacs? (which is a very fat application for such machines)
>
> We still support DOS, which is even trashier, remember?
>
> I really don't understand this urge to be unkind to users of lesser
> machines. If there was some effort required from the active
> developers, I could at least begin to understand. But there isn't
> any.
I understand the virtues of maintaining support for older systems, but
the prospect of maintaining support for non-networked Windows 95, when
there's no one to use or test or develop that support, does not fill me
with enthusiasm.
We have one developer---you---who can still make sure Emacs works on
DOS. (And also DOS can be emulated these days.) I'm not aware of
anyone who is still using and/or reporting bugs (let alone developing)
on a non-networked Windows 95 system. Are you?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-28 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-26 15:22 MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 15:48 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-26 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 18:05 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-26 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 18:17 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-26 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 21:14 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-27 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 10:09 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-27 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 13:56 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-27 0:48 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-27 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 16:49 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-27 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 22:28 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 0:12 ` Florian Beck
2010-03-28 0:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-28 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 18:55 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-03-28 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 23:23 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-29 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-31 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 10:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 15:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 16:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 17:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 17:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 18:05 ` OT: (was: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process) Stefan Monnier
2010-03-31 15:28 ` MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 16:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 18:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-06 7:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-04-07 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-07 7:59 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-28 0:39 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 7:21 ` Windows 9X compatibility Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 14:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-28 15:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-28 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 16:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-28 18:03 ` joakim
2010-03-29 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-28 19:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-28 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 22:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-28 19:27 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 21:04 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 7:17 ` Windows 9X compatibility (was: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process) Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 7:33 ` MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Jason Rumney
2010-03-28 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-28 9:11 ` Serious performance problem with process output on Mac OSX Christian Lynbech
2010-03-28 14:41 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-29 21:58 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-29 23:26 ` David Reitter
2010-03-29 23:54 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-30 7:43 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-30 13:05 ` David Reitter
2010-03-30 17:39 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2010-03-30 17:47 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-31 2:38 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2010-03-31 4:00 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-31 13:41 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2010-03-31 14:28 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-31 14:29 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-29 23:48 ` MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Davis Herring
2010-03-30 5:41 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-26 23:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-27 0:51 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-03-27 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 13:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-27 13:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-28 17:29 ` Kim F. Storm
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