From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chip Coldwell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vms for emacs [was: MacOS port functional too] Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:22:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <464CC097.10700@gnu.org> <200705192325.l4JNP7lT027096@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85zm3zongg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4650B1A9.2030509@gnu.org> <87y7jiogw2.fsf_-_@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179758919 10158 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 14:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 14:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel , Jason Rumney To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 16:48:35 2007 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 1Hq9Ba-0003K6-K8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:48:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9Ba-0001Q0-6p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 10:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9Al-0008Cj-EA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 10:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9Aj-00087O-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 10:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq9Aj-00086z-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 10:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq9Ah-0002O9-Q8; Mon, 21 May 2007 10:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4LEVwvJ016685; Mon, 21 May 2007 10:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.boston.redhat.com (mail.boston.redhat.com [172.16.76.12]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4LEMlUL002475; Mon, 21 May 2007 10:22:47 -0400 Original-Received: from bogart.boston.redhat.com (bogart.boston.redhat.com [172.16.80.240]) by mail.boston.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4LEMlNC006604; Mon, 21 May 2007 10:22:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y7jiogw2.fsf_-_@ambire.localdomain> X-detected-kernel: 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:71519 Archived-At: On Mon, 21 May 2007, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () Jason Rumney > () Sun, 20 May 2007 21:38:01 +0100 > > Did we drop vms support for Emacs 22, or did someone come forward to > support it? > > there was no official support for Emacs 21, and that situation has not > changed since then. thus "drop" is not entirely correct although the > result is the same from user point of view. > > personally, i'm currently talking w/ someone to set up a remote account > where i can do some work on vms support. things move slowly, though. I'm currently maintaining the Xpdf port for VMS (OpenVMS/Alpha to be precise): http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell/vms/xpdf.html I could have a crack at compiling Emacs-22. It requires a lot of infrastructure that isn't normally available on VMS, though (e.g. GNU make, gcc, etc.). Chip -- Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc 978-392-2426