From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Date: 02 Dec 2002 20:36:52 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7263-Wed27Nov2002204304+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200212021613.gB2GDxs02206@rum.cs.yale.edu> <9003-Mon02Dec2002211831+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038864238 5597 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 21:23:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, jbuehler@hekimian.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18IxyD-00017i-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 22:19:13 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Iy7P-0001eN-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 22:28:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Ixy8-0005kN-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:19:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IxwO-0003oa-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:17:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IxwF-0003V2-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:17:16 -0500 Original-Received: from carbon.btinternet.com ([194.73.73.92]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IxwE-0003RA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from host213-122-216-194.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([213.122.216.194] helo=nyaumo.btinternet.com) by carbon.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #16) id 18Ixw7-0005ci-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:17:06 +0000 Original-Received: from nyaumo.btinternet.com (nyaumo.btinternet.com [127.0.0.1]) by nyaumo.btinternet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4484AAB8; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:36:53 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <9003-Mon02Dec2002211831+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9814 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9814 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > I don't disagree, but I do think that without sorting out > DOZe-specific code like I suggested, the Cygwin port might have some > subtle bugs and misfeatures. So it can only be viewed as work in > progress, not something we could in good faith offer to users at > large. My impression is that many of the misfeatures might be considered features by those who would use the Cygwin port. Mostly they don't want to interact with Windows programs in the Windows way. So it may not be as much of a work in progress as it might seem.