From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mention darwin as a possible value for system-type? Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:10:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: <002101c50e75$33ee87c0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c50ed6$Blat.v2.4$5fc89be0@zahav.net.il> <16906.29014.782630.361708@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <01c50f2c$Blat.v2.4$1e6a7c80@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108032239 22298 80.91.229.2 (10 Feb 2005 10:43:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 10 11:43:58 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzBnd-0008Kd-Fp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:43:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzBxb-0006NW-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzBX9-00048v-A0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:26:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzBX3-00047v-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:26:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzBX1-00042a-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CzBHj-0007Be-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:10:55 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CzBEA-0001H5-Og; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:07:15 -0500 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c50f2c$Blat.v2.4$1e6a7c80@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:49:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33187 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> From: Nick Roberts >> 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum