From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Support for MS-Windows build of Emacs Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:58:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86jzha4kc3.fsf@gnu.org> <86plr2587s.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18686"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arash Esbati Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 28 04:59:06 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sXu7m-0004kX-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 04:59:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sXu6v-00005H-EO; Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sXu6t-00004x-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sXu6t-0004oG-8m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:58:11 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=qN3Cdn8lNliOySxFBujyXclJBobH/9moSb0miQzRVvU=; b=kOuShe0YG2A3 ROxnBA5+ysPbim8srOeY58XrpB5xjJ4F401TjdEFzMV/fBgd7l+n8FXuxASWniUC0JS7A5hfmkCO+ nQCk+SZG063UznEaewDZcJAGb8UX+sW7tajKz0MANK0+U5TKOpq54K+YMLfe5cNtK1cOS/qUsRVdM 2WrMtaWtqpgOQbicuJBxb0+WSkIMn8+mbyfasQDO8NAbeOasXJKVr53B/yzQaQ0hkXRrrSyWN+r3I UJiS3XW3uiOuwoHiPOAR5GqVjchHrn2lAeQwRfPOt+vxRxqooQ7xGIFFAcWCA9J04y4wWqMxv6kmY VsU4SBjShv930yCy5vC9qA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sXu6r-0004mc-EF; Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:58:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arash Esbati on Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:03:04 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:322148 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. ]]] > I think there is a demand for Emacs on non-free systems, notably Windows > and macOS, so dropping the support isn't helpful. But as you said, it > becomes a dead end if the official maintainers don't have the time > and/or willingness etc. to do the job there and no one else steps > forward. Our primary goal is developing the GNU operating system. Other systems are inherently less important than that, and nonfree systems even less so. Given our limited resources, we have to do things this way. However, as long as people keep wanting to use Emacs on those nonfree systems, I hope some of them will step forward and support Emacs there. Is there a way we can encourage them to? A good place to post? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)