From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnutls for lose32 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 12:51:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87aa68dfao.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4F0154F1.6000002@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325505167 7718 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2012 11:52:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , rms@gnu.org, nmav@gnutls.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Carsten Mattner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 02 12:52:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgRV-0004lR-DT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:52:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgRU-00027a-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37118) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgRS-00027K-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgRR-0001bT-8r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:35059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgRN-0001aS-JQ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:52:33 -0500 Original-Received: by dakl33 with SMTP id l33so12557386dak.0 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:52:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=i7ARLYEAgRsroF3mvOpnLRBR6ShfLYbkI6rmlIJDINc=; b=Bj/qCDNEhCmljcmx+Z52TOEJ+ajtw+sLms4VdfRGox4S+T4FcbGd9ovQrwxZT0xQFv TrlBkbgHz4pgK8M4WKbIbzCQyzjDk1TkXdf+aOeH2fXuBgOLYNb8C1DOreknRTEHftHs jWvKStgupiLteZMNBmMCvqv06IDwwuRWcpvaE= Original-Received: by 10.68.73.68 with SMTP id j4mr120501597pbv.40.1325505152149; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:52:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.142.247.28 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 03:51:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147166 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:46, Carsten Mattner wrote: > I'm not sure this is a good idea. > "win32" is used in the same way as "posix" to refer to a set of > platform APIs. "win" alone should be expanded. And yet, imagine that Microsoft were to add some program, library or product called "Windows Win", and that we had to refer to it in the documentation. What would we call it? "Windows Lose"? Really? And would that really help the users in any way, or just confuse them? I won't deny the power of words. But sometimes, a name is just a name. The crusade against "win32" is a bit silly IMHO; it's hard to believe that anyone, outside of a few old timers, reads it as "a form of praise". =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma