From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: removing support for old platforms Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:50:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200801050843.m058heaw011436@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199544664 31713 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 14:51:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:51:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 15:51:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBAMm-0007yi-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:51:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAMP-0006mZ-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAMM-0006lT-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:50:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAML-0006l2-1n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:50:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBAMK-0006kz-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBAMK-0000Cn-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-71-78.inter.net.il [80.230.71.78]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id JUY48550 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:50:28 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <200801050843.m058heaw011436@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:43:35 -0800) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86167 Archived-At: > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:43:35 -0800 > > The MSDOS platform still has some interesting code that we might want to > reuse: it has real menus in text mode, that functionality would be good > to have at some point in the future for terminals. > Eli, how do you wan to handle this? I'd prefer that the support for the MSDOS port not be removed until I decide to stop working on it altogether. After all, apart of the msdos/ subdirectory, which can hardly be a nuisance to anyone, the MSDOS support boils down to: . 5 DOS-specific C files . several __MSDOS__/__DJGPP__ cpp directives scattered through the common sources. That doesn't seem too much.