From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:18:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> <87mvhgsf21.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8360o4monq.fsf@gnu.org> <87vaw4gq0j.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83oa1vlnkk.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1iba6od.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ins2jq88.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg2p8swx.fsf@russet.org.uk> <831sypjmst.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpggip8j.fsf@gnu.org> <05ba947a-970a-178c-8036-bcdf84485384@cs.ucla.edu> <87inrzz4y0.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87fun2vxab.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83eg2mgf8l.fsf@gnu.org> <87fun0egxb.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478712116 24210 195.159.176.226 (9 Nov 2016 17:21:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 17:21:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 18:21:52 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4WYo-0002Se-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:21:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4WYq-0006PO-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4WXO-0005Lg-HQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:19:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4WXK-0003GT-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:19:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39880 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4WXK-0003G4-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:19:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4WWH-0000jx-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:18:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:To51A05WrDU3fRixcTfAW7/Q9lw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209309 Archived-At: > Yes, I remember you saying and I remain surprised that you use such an > old operating system, and presumably computer. I guess we wait till your > machine breaks before we move to XP. FWIW, I don't see much point in discontinuing support for XP. At least not until we bump into some situation where preserving compatibility with XP causes significant extra work, or until XP is sufficiently rare. Currently XP is pretty far from rare in my experience (many users stuck to XP and resisted upgrading because the subsequent versions delivered by Microsoft were perceived to be worse in some respects, which is why Microsoft ended up having to extend support of XP until as late as 2014). Stefan