From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 690512d: Fix a FIXME with an exegetical comment
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:29:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdohjreYgSuKxEv8Yuv7p31Fv3Ym+_O+SOnoWaRUhcux4Rw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ce5e7f89-5694-e922-14f8-3c8ce328fa33@cs.ucla.edu>
On 26 August 2017 at 09:10, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> Is wksh no longer included in the popular distributions?
>
>
> No. It was a commercial product, and was never part of GNU or BSD
> distributions. It was in use for only a year or two, and was almost
> immediately supplanted by dtksh (another commercial product) around 1993.
> Nobody has used wksh for many years.
>
>> In any case, we don't normally remove stuff before deprecating it for
>> some period of time. Should this case be an exception
>
> I'd say so, yes, since nobody uses wksh.
I've simply removed the offending invalid regexp, figuring that
there's little harm in keeping the rest of the information about wksh.
--
https://rrt.sc3d.org
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2017-08-25 21:02 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 690512d: Fix a FIXME with an exegetical comment Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 21:20 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-26 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-26 8:02 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-26 8:10 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-26 23:29 ` Reuben Thomas [this message]
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