From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows 64 port Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:28:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20120219211800.0000558f@unknown> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329733752 322 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2012 10:29:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:29:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: AJMR , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 20 11:29:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RzQUX-0005sT-V8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:29:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46513 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RzQUX-00040B-D3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:29:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RzQUR-0003un-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:29:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RzQUH-0000gw-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-tul01m020-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:49618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RzQUC-0000Zh-Ry; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:28:48 -0500 Original-Received: by obbta7 with SMTP id ta7so8458467obb.0 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:28:47 -0800 (PST) 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 :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hNGy0z3ILHiUywOChCPjk42MifZsBiU/QuNPjmXHAIA=; b=oaO1AqsjVDcAHRopfG/NVXQ+MpRo3X7jWAFUpxaRihkqoh1YYiQhTgGpLaX6GH4HkB kWPLqKH6A3D3zfCCpgzlB+VoC3OQAhMy9++zsapfrbc8MWX8R4lSf2E2buS4y4W8xRrH U6fJu/rtBGslVPIQqbc+p1OliMaJhbyf3qoJs= Original-Received: by 10.60.18.199 with SMTP id y7mr8597800oed.70.1329733727705; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:28:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.60.42.193 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:28:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.214.169 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:148677 Archived-At: > =A0 =A0I would love to start to contribute to the GNU community and I tho= ught > =A0 =A0that porting Emacs 23 to Windows 64, could be a good useful entry. > > You can do it if you like, but note that this sort of change would > do nothing to advance the free world. =A0Thus, how about porting yourself > to GNU/Linux, and writing improvements that benefit GNU/Linux? There are many people who, like me, are tied to a MS Windows OS at work (that's not up to me). Those people could not use and contribute to GNU Emacs if it wasn't because there is a port for that platform. Therefore, I think that the ports of Emacs for other platforms (specially Windows) is useful for the free world, because they extend the number of users and contributors of GNU Emacs (which is part of "the free world"). --=20 Dani Moncayo