From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: QUERY: w32 sub process implementation
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:23:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3ayevqh3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3f230850708191919i433810b7peb24e8f52fcfa5f3@mail.gmail.com> (message from dhruva on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:49:44 +0530)
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:49:44 +0530
> From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
> Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> On 8/20/07, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
> > dhruva wrote:
> > > Using ASYNC read and registering callbacks in wait, I feel we can
> > > completely do away with threads for sub procs.
> > Wil this work on Windows 95/98/ME? According to the MSDN docs,
>
> Could we have a new implementation (and decide at configure time) for
> the newer versions on windows only.
Configure-time decisions are not a good idea, since Windows binaries
are habitually copied between machines, and because many users install
a precompiled binary distribution from ftp.gnu.org instead of building
from sources.
So any such decisions must be run-time decisions.
> I agree we need to support older versions of windows OS but IMHO,
> should also move forward.
There are still many users of Windows 9x, and we don't want to drop
their support. Any move forward should not break Windows 9x.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-20 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-19 19:45 QUERY: w32 sub process implementation dhruva
2007-08-19 21:16 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-20 2:19 ` dhruva
2007-08-20 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-08-20 15:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-21 8:41 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-08-21 9:09 ` dhruva
2007-08-21 9:25 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-21 9:18 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-21 16:30 ` Davis Herring
2007-08-21 23:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-19 22:39 ` Kim F. Storm
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