From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:52:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87630m1vnz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87r5jaywvt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87lj9iyv98.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83bpaeumdx.fsf@gnu.org> <20100711150142.GB3134@muc.de> <834og6uduu.fsf@gnu.org> <87ocecit9b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279036374 17890 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2010 15:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, spedrosa@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bernardobarros2@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, miles@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: ams@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 17:52:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYhmq-0007lF-ND for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:52:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52842 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYhmq-0005xD-7l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:52:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53390 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYhmj-0005x7-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYhmi-0001EL-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:52:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:65473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYhmi-0001E0-4Z; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so4958888wyj.0 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:52:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cRDJQG4HhBELnD8aiRKbk+hHeyp6h8hxeVF9kBojTE4=; b=Vdvc9hk6BGxQjEzMdAOkWPip9FDCIhLEBux9VM/U8K7JOlUB6+2T8Pzs4i1Xcfc/T5 +YdpaiD9fdnSHnKJPRWtjqdis6A5npGIel0LsdMPP7XKfAWeH3TsXxIJT5qxD7zQFOdD t8gMbwvyEK+cthIlDI3Qm0SWJhqvQgkF4TRyE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OuUZVKkAlqi33LvLSJyUjzdy7WiI42ezsuv5pcqxNSn+Ce3AGFFdPNUMjVDmI+3d9T F2j4b/LSJNSRWvsZI3o/Se3xZc/pzuMGI3aVBrm0+f0FOcr7wqFvUvnQZmllPK8xlcLg 8uAmEsXxo63WQ9qr5hIAKYageX7ve296vSoqo= Original-Received: by 10.216.167.80 with SMTP id h58mr10267559wel.49.1279036358289; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.182.135 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:52:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:127190 Archived-At: 2010/7/13 Alfred M. Szmidt : > =A0 > =A0 =A0many people in the gnu world are using qt4. are there reason= s not to > =A0 > =A0 =A0consider it? > =A0 > > =A0 > Two: > =A0 > > =A0 > * GNU policy is to use other GNU packages by preference, and QT isn= 't > =A0 > =A0GNU. > =A0 > > =A0 > * GNU policy is to use C by preference to C++. > > =A0 Are these policies listed somewhere? > > They are listed in the GNU Maintainer Guidelines, the GNU mainfesto, > and our project web page. > Well, I don't find anything about C++ specifically in the maintainer guidelines and the manifesto... Never mind, it's not important. --=20 Deniz Dogan