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From: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about pure space
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:38:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r0f04jz0.fsf@Pro.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86il0ca6ub.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 20 Apr 2024 09:25:32 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  rpluim@gmail.com,
>>   schwab@suse.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:42:02 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> Eli thought it was too early.
>> >> Time has passed since, so it might be worth another try.
>> >
>> > I will only support removing pure-space when we remove the unexec
>> > build.
>> 
>> Can I ask what the problem with removing unexec is?
>
> Just the decision we need to make.  It means dropping the MSDOS port
> and also the only kind of build that currently works on old Windows 9X
> systems.  Maybe others as well (if there are configurations that still
> don't support pdumper), I don't know.

Thanks!



  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-20  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-18 15:01 Question about pure space Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-18 15:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-04-18 15:37   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-19 15:48     ` Robert Pluim
2024-04-19 16:32       ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-19 16:49         ` Stefan Monnier
2024-04-19 17:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-20  5:42             ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-20  6:17               ` Po Lu
2024-04-20 13:43                 ` Dumping unexec (was: Question about pure space) Stefan Monnier
2024-04-20 14:14                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-20 14:44                   ` Dumping unexec Po Lu
2024-04-20 15:10                     ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-20  6:25               ` Question about pure space Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-20  6:38                 ` Gerd Möllmann [this message]
2024-04-20 19:03                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-04-21  8:56                   ` James Le Cuirot
2024-04-20 23:31             ` Richard Stallman
2024-04-21  5:10               ` Eli Zaretskii

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