From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lute Kamstra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el. Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:34:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87d5pz8qoq.fsf@xs4all.nl> References: <8764vtxusp.fsf@xs4all.nl> <85mzp3a8am.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120430314 18645 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 22:38:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 04 00:38:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpD5y-0004He-Hl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:37:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpD79-0002Iu-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpD6S-0001vN-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpD6N-0001si-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:38:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpD6N-0001rY-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:38:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.109.24.29] (helo=smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DpD8A-0008Cj-7T; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from pijl (a80-127-67-124.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.127.67.124]) by smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j63MYFwd002538; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:34:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Lute.Kamstra@xs4all.nl) Original-Received: from lute by pijl with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DpD2U-0002De-00; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:34:14 +0200 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85mzp3a8am.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:28:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 37 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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:40280 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40280 David Kastrup writes: > "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? As I understand it, Darwin is a subset of OS X that includes the Mach kernel and more. Lute.