From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:15:25 +1200 Message-ID: <18569.3341.149170.466548@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <87skug6tq5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <20080714195651.GF3445@muc.de> <487C5FA3.4070603@emf.net> <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878wvxxkn6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ej5oz4pb.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87vdyzxype.fsf@saeurebad.de> <871w1njq32.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iquzxgtk.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884CFEF.8040404@gmail.com> <48861A51.1090401@gmail.com> <4887C77C.2090109@gmail.com> <48890184.40207@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216941361 7604 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2008 23:16:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 25 01:16:49 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 1KMA39-0006O9-C4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:16:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43087 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMA2E-0005Gn-HL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMA2A-0005Gf-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMA29-0005GR-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44257 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMA29-0005GO-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]:55032) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMA28-0000jc-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (190.62.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.62.190]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585E93DA921; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:15:31 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EA15D8FC6D; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:15:25 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <48890184.40207@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.3 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:101434 Archived-At: > One way to look into this question is perhaps to ask people developing > software that runs on free systems where they have learned it and if it > has been any help to them that these tools also runs on non-free systems. It's only worth asking these questions if a negative conclusion would mean that people are going to stop working on/distributing Emacs on non-free systems. Since they are probably not going to do that, it's probably best to just have tolerance for one another. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob