Re: Mention darwin as a possible value for system-type?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
>> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:23:50 +1300
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> On a related note (or possibly unrelated), if you type "C-h i d m
>> elisp RET", then "i system-type RET", shouldn't you see the full
>> list of the possible values of that variable. I see no mention of
>> darwin. Is this deliberate?
>
> If `darwin' is the value on some supported system, its omission
> cannot be deliberate, I think.

Secondguessing will get us nowhere: by that we just cement possible
oversights permanently.  Policy by accident, "somebody might have
thought something when doing that", is a recipe for disaster in the
long run.

AFAICS, Darwin is free software (while MacOSX isn't).  So even if we
try to be semi-"politically correct" by deliberately making using
unfree software more complicated with buggy documentation, more likely
window-system rather than system-type should be affected.

If there was a rationale, I'd prefer hearing instead of guessing it.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum