From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 6ddb4bd: Fix 'vc-git--program-version' Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:17:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20180216093116.572.67356@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180216093117.66FB5206A2@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <4finawzxei.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83po54df3n.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518912980 27993 195.159.176.226 (18 Feb 2018 00:16:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 18 01:16:15 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enCe6-0005w9-MM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:15:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enCg8-0007rs-LV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enCfT-0007qU-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enCfS-0003s8-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:17:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32885) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enCfS-0003s4-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:17:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1enCfR-0001rg-OF; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:17:21 -0500 In-reply-to: <83po54df3n.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:22:20 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222871 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Given how much time it was "broken" on Windows without anyone > noticing, isn't it just fair that we leave it "broken" on non-Windows > platforms for approximately the same time? Our highest priority platform is GNU, including GNU/Linux. "It runs best on GNU" is our motto. We welcome code and corrections for Windows, but we must not break anything on GNU. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.