From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can't build latest emacs on MSW + CRLF display issue
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:46:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aad2ozucro.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d2p1h5j7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:36:12 +0300")
I'm not trying to be difficult here, I really just don't understand
your logic.
Reasons to remove the old method:
1) It's unsupported and out-of-date (eg I know it doesn't build all the
manuals. Minor but still a bug.).
2) There's no need to have two separate methods to build Emacs on
MS Windows.
3) The new method is obviously preferable since it is the same method
used on all other platforms (except MS DOS).
Even if 1) changes (and it shows no sign of doing so), 2) and 3) never will.
On the other hand, I can't think of a single reason to _not_ remove it.
If someone turns up and wants to do 1), it will be the least of their
problems to first revert the commit that removed the old method. (But
we should not let them anyway, because of 2 and 3.)
(BTW, I suggest at least renaming nt/INSTALL to nt/INSTALL.OLD, and
INSTALL.MSYS to INSTALL.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-27 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-25 11:52 Can't build latest emacs on MSW + CRLF display issue Vincent Belaïche
2013-08-25 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 19:00 ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-25 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 19:40 ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-25 20:18 ` Vincent Belaïche
2013-08-25 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-27 1:46 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-08-27 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-27 18:54 ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-27 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-08-25 18:54 Vincent Belaïche
2013-08-25 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-26 6:06 Vincent Belaïche
2013-08-26 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-27 2:28 Vincent Belaïche
2013-08-27 2:44 Vincent Belaïche
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