From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs/lib-src emacsclient.c ChangeLog
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:55:58 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812101655.mBAGtwPw025867@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493FF0F7.1070305@f2s.com> (Jason Rumney's message of "Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:40:23 +0800")
Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com> writes:
> Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> > But the base discussion is whether features should be tested by
> > feature tests, or lumped together into the WINDOWSNT, DOS_NT,
> > NS_IMPL_* bags. We've been saying for years that Emacs lisp programs
> > must not check the Emacs version, but features. The same reasoning
> > applies to checking HAVE_DAEMON vs. WINDOWSNT.
> >
>
> When it is just not possible to support a feature because of the
> platform, then I have no problem using the platform constant to
> conditionally compile it out. But if it is just a lack of developers
> on a particular platform that is preventing the feature from being
> implemented, then it is much easier for later developers who wish to
> implement it if there is a feature specific constant.
>
> NO_SOCKETS_IN_FILE_SYSTEM is sitting on a blurry line, since although
> Windows does not support unix domain sockets, it is conceivable that
> an emulation of them using named pipes could be developed in future.
The problem with that is that WINDOWSNT has many many idiosyncrasies,
having a #define for each one of them adds an overhead for the ones of
us working on free systems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1LAQV6-0003hq-HV@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
2008-12-10 15:01 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs/lib-src emacsclient.c ChangeLog Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-10 15:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-10 15:46 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-10 15:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-10 16:15 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-10 16:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-10 16:35 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-10 16:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-10 16:40 ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-10 16:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-10 16:55 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-12-10 19:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-10 19:36 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-10 19:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-10 20:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-10 20:18 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-10 20:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-10 20:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-10 16:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-10 16:33 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
[not found] <E1LAYb6-0004jn-HF@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
2008-12-10 23:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
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