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: [multi-tty] Emacs port status Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 14:11:28 +0300 Message-ID: References: <464CC097.10700@gnu.org> <85abw3up91.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179573100 21030 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2007 11:11:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 11:11:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 19 13:11:38 2007 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 1HpMqY-0008Ab-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:11:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpMqX-0006SU-Mr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpMqS-0006Rg-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpMqR-0006R6-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpMqQ-0006R2-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:11:31 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HpMqP-0004np-DL; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-254-231.inter.net.il [84.229.254.231]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HWL02638 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 19 May 2007 14:11:28 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 19 May 2007 06:55:14 -0400) X-detected-kernel: 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:71382 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 06:55:14 -0400 > > I'm not sure I will continue the MSDOS support in Emacs 23. It sounds > like Emacs 23 will be Unicode-based; if that is indeed so, it will be > most probably well beyond my resources to make all the Unicode-related > features work on MSDOS. > > Emacs 23 is probably at least a year away. My estimate is 3 years away, but I'd love to be wrong. > Is MSDOS still used sufficiently to make it worth continuing to > support? I don't think it is used enough for people to want the latest and greatest Emacs (which is why the prospect of letting it slowly bit-rot doesn't bother me), but a year is enough time for people to holler if I'm wrong. I myself don't use the MSDOS port for at least 2 years, except occasionally for a few minutes when I build a pretest of 22.1 and try a few commands, just to see that it doesn't crash. And I didn't see a bug report or a question about it for a long time.