From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build-time dependencies Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:49:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080606155915.GA3953@muc.de> <20080606203541.GA1741@muc.de> <20080607095024.GC1812@muc.de> <20080607200821.GI1812@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212976282 6021 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 01:51:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 01:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 03:52:04 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 1K5WYA-00078h-Oh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:51:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5WXN-0006A4-HT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5WXH-00066n-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5WXF-000655-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45332 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5WXF-000652-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:51:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52834) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5WXG-0003XF-1z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K5WVK-0000cH-7F; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:49:02 -0400 X-Spook: Marxist Aldergrove Al-Qaeda event security militia 9705 X-Ran: -(VOj|X(*8_Eea=`pCBy1sr$c!dh1Bpwj*.;{),kF32UGpzz't+S@uf;O9J%g+`J-zP>+= X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:44:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:98749 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > I would just discourage the use of `recompile' et al except by those > who know what they are doing, have slow machines, and need to rebuild > Emacs frequently. PS as a data point, it takes less than 10 minutes to bootstrap on a ~2 year old dual core machine. It's getting hard to buy anything now that has only one core, even in a laptop. But I know support for older hardware is important to Emacs.