From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ulf.jasper@web.de, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Subject: Re: newsticker-*.el files
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:21:25 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoskvn10je.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uej77kov9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:13:14 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> No I don't really think emacs should worry too much about MSDOS support
>> all the same
>
> Neither do I. No one expends any effort whatsoever on the DOS port
> except myself, for a very long time now. I really don't understand
> the knee-jerk reaction this causes some people whenever I ask to
> rename a bunch of files
I think the reason is pretty simple actually: People don't like the
resulting naming restrictions, especially given that there's at least a
perception (I don't have any hard data) that MSDOS is essentially dead
(there are no doubt industrial controllers and the like that still use
MSDOS or some derivative, but they're not a likely target for Emacs).
-Miles
--
Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-09 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-08 18:22 newsticker-*.el files Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-08 22:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-06-08 23:44 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-06-09 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-09 8:21 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-06-09 9:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-08 23:44 ` Leo
2008-06-09 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-09 8:23 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-09 9:34 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-09 9:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-09 23:15 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-09 23:45 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-10 3:25 ` dhruva
2008-06-10 17:33 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-09 17:22 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-09 0:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09 1:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-09 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-09 12:43 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-06-09 12:47 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-09 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-09 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-09 8:13 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-09 13:35 ` Chong Yidong
[not found] ` <84bq2beol7.fsf@web.de>
2008-06-09 17:52 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-09 18:19 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-09 18:39 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-09 19:38 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-10 7:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-10 18:34 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-10 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-11 8:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-12 19:05 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-12 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-12 20:30 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-13 8:23 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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