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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 18:50:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9628-Sat07Jun2003185020+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85n0gtoqk2.fsf@pi.meyering.net> (message from Jim Meyering on Sat, 07 Jun 2003 17:28:13 +0200)

> From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 17:28:13 +0200
> 
> >     I haven't seen WINDOWSNT used before.
> >     Here are some of the window-related macros I have seen:
> >
> >       _WIN32 WIN32 __WIN32__ __MSDOS__ WINDOWS32
> >
> > WINDOWSNT is what Emacs uses.  It is a GNU convention that we do not
> > use the abbreviation "WIN" to refer to Windows.  Are those names
> > used in any GNU packages?
> 
> Yes.  I found those uses in gnulib and the coreutils.
> BTW, is WINDOWSNT an appropriate name for such a macro?
> I've heard that some of the modules using those macros may be
> compiled on non-Windows/NT systems.

I believe WINDOWS32 is a better name.  IIRC, GNU Make uses it.

(WINDOWSNT is something that emerged in Emacs historically; it might
not make much sense elsewehere.)

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-07 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-06 10:32 [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs Dave Love
2003-06-06 13:24 ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-09 22:53   ` [Jim Meyering] " Andrew Innes
2003-06-10 22:36     ` Dave Love
2003-06-10 22:34   ` Dave Love
2003-06-10 22:51     ` [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] " Jason Rumney
2003-06-11 10:14       ` Bruno Haible
2003-06-11 10:29         ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-11 17:29           ` [Jim Meyering] " Paul Eggert
2003-06-11 18:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-11 18:52               ` [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] " Paul Eggert
2003-06-11 19:26             ` Bruno Haible
2003-06-12 22:42       ` [Jim Meyering] " Dave Love
2003-06-13 14:53         ` Paul Eggert
2003-06-16 22:15           ` [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] " Dave Love
2003-06-17  4:15             ` Paul Eggert
2003-06-17 11:10               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-06-07 10:22 ` [Jim Meyering] " Richard Stallman
2003-06-07 15:28   ` Jim Meyering
2003-06-07 15:50     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-06-07 17:03       ` [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] " Bruno Haible
2003-06-07 18:46         ` [Jim Meyering] " Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-09  0:21         ` [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] " Richard Stallman
2003-06-09 21:10   ` Avoiding WIN* macros in GNU code [was Re: [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs] Derek Robert Price
2003-06-12  5:52     ` [Zlib-devel] " Cosmin Truta
2003-06-12  6:31       ` Miles Bader
2003-06-12 20:55       ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-12 22:07         ` [Zlib-devel] Avoiding WIN* macros in GNU code Cosmin Truta
2003-06-13 10:03           ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-15 15:59           ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-10 22:33   ` [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs Dave Love
2003-06-12 14:06     ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-12 16:11       ` [Jim Meyering] " Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-06-12 17:59       ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-12 18:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-13 22:03         ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-16 21:55       ` Dave Love

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