From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Eilert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs on OS X development Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:30:07 -0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015174c33fecf63d704ace79839 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316010628 12267 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2011 14:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:30:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 14 16:30:24 2011 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 1R3qTo-0005BM-23 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:30:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qTn-0007BR-L1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qTg-00075R-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qTa-00016Q-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:47356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qTa-00015X-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: by eye13 with SMTP id 13so99806eye.0 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:30:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=LQlOqCBqBZtLfsEPQMDcf7r6OZsbSkwpj9CnfiwqvpA=; b=uYByqBiEDjM5a54Pf6mxxI5zmUO5o1i6Gu9+Y/Y3Rk3t4rp36KXgmxCnWGw/0SoYAz x/Nz/RjUZ6SMlkn9CjacWyPouOT/txnot4fkHjx7VOaKRBbLX/fjT++vWlY9YrNiiE22 rCJiBkx4+QGE39ZQN0pll09hTLo+CjNolH4uw= Original-Received: by 10.204.3.214 with SMTP id 22mr2225001bko.148.1316010607993; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.204.152.21 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:30:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:144022 Archived-At: --0015174c33fecf63d704ace79839 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: > GNU Emacs is part of the GNU system, and our motto is. > "It runs best on GNU." > > Why have the ports been merged then? Following this reasoning, people who wanted to run it on other operating systems would have to maintain their own patches, therefore not wasting FSF resources. -- Stephen --0015174c33fecf63d704ace79839 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Richard Stallm= an <rms@gnu.org>= wrote:
GNU Emacs is part of the GNU system, and our motto is.
"It runs best on GNU."


Why have the ports been merged then? Following this reasoning, peop= le who wanted to run it on other operating systems would have to maintain t= heir own patches, therefore not wasting FSF resources.


-- Stephen

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