From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <440e43a6bda12b5a329d84ceaf7bc33251ec9701.1344326992.git.dancol@dancol.org> <831ujihdf8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344369620 2383 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2012 20:00:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 20:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 22:00:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sypwy-00011s-IN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:00:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sypwx-0007pq-9Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sypwr-0007pC-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sypwn-0001c1-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:12 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:55520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sypwn-0001Tr-PC; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q77K01kI020110; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5D389B4081; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:00:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <831ujihdf8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:31:07 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4303=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4303> : streams <795939> : uri <1186300> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152285 Archived-At: >> > - (w32 (eq system-type 'windows-nt)) >> > + (nt (eq system-type 'windows-nt)) >> I do see that we now have a problem where w32 can refer either to "using >> the w32 API for things like process and file system operations" and >> "using the w32 GUI". > It's just a local variable, so I really don't see the problem with it. Yes, this particular use case is of no importance, but I meant to discuss the general issue. >> But "nt" doesn't sound too good for the first. >> Maybe "w32os"? > How about "windows" or "ms-windows"? w32os is misleading, or will be, > once Emacs could be built as a 64-bit process. I doubt we're going to rename all the w32-foo functions and variables, so for better or worse, "w32" is most likely the official name we will use even when building against the w64 API. Just like we use "ns" for GNUstep and Mac OS X. Stefan