From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:29:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807111217m66d6cf4el777c197c107ce034@mail.gmail.com> <87skug6tq5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <20080714195651.GF3445@muc.de> <487C5FA3.4070603@emf.net> <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878wvxxkn6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4883A1E4.4010502@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216611078 3899 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 03:31:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:31:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, lord@emf.net, drobinow@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 05:32:06 2008 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 4.50) id 1KKm82-000790-1d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:32:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKm77-0002k4-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKm6Q-0002K5-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKm6Q-0002Jf-99 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54490 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKm6Q-0002JZ-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53277) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKm6P-0001RK-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KKm5i-0006Qa-94; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:29:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <4883A1E4.4010502@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:101041 Archived-At: Something like a portable mini-bash (with more limited capabilities) that runs also on w32 and could be used together with w32 programs would perhaps make this better. It would be a shame for people that care about free software to spend time implementing free software specifically to run on Windows.